Motivation and the Virtue of Honesty: Some Conceptual Requirements and Empirical Results

The virtue of honesty has been stunningly neglected in contemporary philosophy, with only two papers appearing in the last 40 years. The first half of this paper is a conceptual exploration of one aspect of the virtue, namely the honest person’s motivational profile. I argue that egoistic motives fo...

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Main Author: Miller, Christian B. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V [2020]
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2020, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Pages: 355-371
Further subjects:B Cheating
B Honesty
B Lying
B Motivation
B Virtue
B Altruism
B Egoism
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