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The Moral Psychology of Envy

Archer, Alfred, Assistant Professor of Ph(Contributions by)Bankovsky, Miriam(Contributions by)Carbonell, Vanessa(Contributions by)Chuang, Christina(Contributions by)Crusius, Jan(Contributions by)Engelen, Bart(Contributions by)Kerr, Alison Duncan(Contributions by)Lange, Jens(Contributions by)Niccoli, Ariele(Contributions by)Protasi, Sara(Edited by)
Part of the Moral Psychology of the Emotions series
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Envy is a vicious and shameful response to the good fortune of others, one that ruins friendships and plagues societies—or so the common thinking goes, shaped by millennia of religious and cultural condemnation.

Envy’s bad reputation is not completely unwarranted; envy can indeed motivate malicious and counterproductive behavior and may strain or even tear apart relations between people.

However, that is not always the case. Investigating the complex nature of this emotion reveals that it plays important functions in social hierarchies and it can motivate one to self-improve and even to achieve moral virtue. Philosophers and psychologists in this volume explore envy’s characteristics in different cultures, spanning from small hunter-gatherer communities to large industrialized countries, and contexts as diverse as academia, marketing, artificial intelligence, and Buddhism.

They explore envy’s role in both the personal and the political sphere, showing the many ways in which envy can either contribute or detract to our flourishing as individuals and as citizens of modern democracies.

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Product Details
Rowman & Littlefield
1538160064 / 9781538160060
Hardback
152.48
22/08/2022
United States
English
248 pages : illustrations (black and white)
23 cm