An Understanding of Character from Holistic Thinking: What Asian Psychology Teaches Us about the Debate on Situationism

• Main Author: Cleofas, Jacklyn A
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2019
• Subjects: virtue; character; situationism; Asian psychology; empirical philosophy; moral psychology; Ethics and Political Philosophy; Philosophy
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/philo-faculty-pubs/15; http://journal.hep.com.cn/fpc/EN/10.3868/s030-008-019-0023-4
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The situationist challenge to virtue has convinced many philosophers to adopt an empirically grounded methodology. I argue that this methodology requires us to reconsider conceptualizations of and evidence on character from experiments involving Asian subjects because it is precisely in these experi...