The character gap: how good are we?

"We like to think of ourselves, our friends, and our families as decent people. We may not be saints, but we are still honest, relatively kind, and mostly trustworthy. Miller argues here that we are badly mistaken in thinking this. Hundreds of recent studies in psychology tell a different story...

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Main Author: Miller, Christian B. (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New York Oxford University Press [2018]
In:Year: 2018
Series/Journal:Philosophy in action
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Character / Moral conditions
B Character / Virtue
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
NCB Personal ethics
Further subjects:B Character
B Virtue
B Bibliography
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