#1077 Blaine Fowers: The Science of Virtue
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Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The Center. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Doctor Blaine Fowers. He's professor of counseling psychology at the University of Miami. And today we're talking about his book, The Sci The Science of Virtue, a Framework for Research. So Doctor Fowers, welcome to the show. It's a big pleasure to everyone. Yeah, it's a pleasure for me too. So just to introduce the topic because I guess there's going to be an interplay here since we're talking about ver virtue and virtues in the plural, there's going to be an interplay between philosophy and psychology. What is virtue theory in moral philosophy? In moral philosophy it it dates back to Aristotle, actually to Socrates. Um
But Aristotle uh put a very nice formulation on it and uh more He's more articulate than Socrates and Plato are about it. Um And moral theory or I mean uh virtue theory is really uh the idea that
Um Virtues are Aspects of a person. that help them to act in the best way consistently so that they can then pursue the best kind of life. Um
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