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61Review of Daniel M. Haybron, The Pursuit of Unhappiness: The Elusive Psychology of Well-Being (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (10). 2009.
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8LoveIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The Oxford handbook of practical ethics, Oxford University Press. 2003.
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98Friendship and commercial societiesPolitics, Philosophy and Economics 7 (3): 301-326. 2008.Critics of commercial societies complain that the free-market system of property rights and freedom of contract tends to commodify relationships, thus eroding the bonds of personal and civic friendship. I argue that this thesis rests on a misunderstanding of both markets and friendship. As voluntary, reciprocal relationships, market relationships and friendship share important properties. Like all relations and activities that exercise important human capacities and play an important role in a m…Read more
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434Moral Agency, Commitment, and ImpartialitySocial Philosophy and Policy 13 (1): 1-26. 1996.Communitarians reject the impartial and universal viewpoint of liberal morality in favor of the "situated" viewpoint of the agent's community, and elevate political community into the moral community. I show that the preeminence of political community in communitarian morality is incompatible with concern for people's lives in the partial communities of family, friends, or others. Ironically, it is also incompatible with the communitarian thesis about the situated nature of moral agency. Politic…Read more
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592LoveIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The Oxford handbook of practical ethics, Oxford University Press. pp. 42. 2003."[L]ove is not merely a contributor - one among others - to meaningful life. In its own way it may underlie all other forms of meaning....by its very nature love is the principal means by which creatures like us seek affective relations to persons, things, or ideals that have value and importance for us. I. The Look of Love.
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19Review of William S. Hamrick, Kindness and the Good Society: Connections of the Heart (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (9). 2002.
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188International aid: When giving becomes a viceSocial Philosophy and Policy 23 (1): 69-101. 2006.Peter Singer and Peter Unger argue that moral decency requires giving away all one's “surplus” for the relief or prevention of “absolute poverty,” because not doing so is analogous to refusing to save a drowning child to avoid making one's clothes muddy. I argue that there is a crucial disanalogy between the two cases and, moreover, that there are four independent moral objections to their thesis: it is monomaniacal in ignoring the variety of morally worthy ideals and elevating self-sacrificial …Read more
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86The Milgram Experiments, Learned Helplessness, and Character TraitsThe Journal of Ethics 13 (2): 257-289. 2009.The Milgram and other situationist experiments support the real-life evidence that most of us are highly akratic and heteronomous, and that Aristototelian virtue is not global. Indeed, like global theoretical knowledge, global virtue is psychologically impossible because it requires too much of finite human beings with finite powers in a finite life; virtue can only be domain-specific. But unlike local, situation-specific virtues, domain-specific virtues entail some general understanding of what…Read more
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37Precis of Well-Being: Happiness in a Worthwhile LifeJournal of Value Inquiry 50 (1): 185-193. 2016.
Neera K. Badhwar
University of Oklahoma
George Mason University
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George Mason UniversityMercatus CenterProfessor (Part-time)
Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy, Misc |
Value Theory |
Areas of Interest
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy, Misc |
Value Theory |