Habits in Mind
Subtitle: Integrating Theology, Philosophy, and the Cognitive Science of Virtue, Emotion, and Character Formation
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9789004342941
Subjects: Habit; Conduct of life; Virtue and virtues; Character
Description: The language of habit plays a central role in traditional accounts of the virtues, yet it has received only modest attention among contemporary scholars of philosophy, psychology, and religion. This volume explores the role of both?mere habits? and sophisticated habitus in the moral life. Beginning with an essay by Stanley Hauerwas and edited by Gregory R. Peterson, James A. Van Slyke, Michael L. Spezio, and Kevin S. Reimer, the volume explores the history of the virtues and habit in Christian thought, the contributions that psychology and neuroscience make to our understanding of habitus, freedom, and character formation, and the relation of habit and habitus to contemporary philosophical and theological accounts of character formation and the moral life.