Title: Reclaiming virtue : how we can develop the moral intelligence to do the right thing at the right time for the right reason /
Authors: Bradshaw, John, 1933-
Publisher: Bantam Book,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Virtue.; Integrity; Moral development.
Abstract: The best-selling author of Creating Love sets out to redefine what it means to live a moral life in today's world by helping readers reclaim and cultivate their inborn moral intelligence by developing one's instincts for goodness in childhood and nurturing them through one's adult life to promote good character and moral responsibility.
Contents: What is moral intelligence? -- Introduction : the better angels of our nature -- The ancient notion of the life of virtue -- New discoveries about human nature -- Biological/emotional guidance system -- Our moral brain : emotion, mind, free choice, and -- Attachment -- The revolutionary discovery of the child's moral -- Intelligence -- Ten major sources from which moral intelligence -- Develops -- Moral intelligence in action : doing the right thing -- Developing your moral intelligence -- Introduction : the oxygen mask principle -- New wine in old wineskins : when the solution becomes -- The problem -- Recovering your innocence : authentic presence and -- Emancipating your will -- Encounters with the dark side : owning your shadow -- Caring for yourself and caring for others : your two -- Careers -- Nurturing the moral intelligence of those -- In your care -- Introduction : every small act of virtue -- The infant who soothed her sobbing mom : the building -- Blocks of emotional intelligence -- Committing adultery at age eight : how conscience is -- Formed -- Were you there when jesus spanked the children? -- Family, fatherhood, and corporal punishment -- The heart of the order : the elements that form -- Moral character -- Why the conflict of generations is necessary : the roots -- Of sexual modesty, studiousness, fidelity, and self -- Efficacy.