abstract: After decades of dormancy, character is re-emerging as an important research topic among organizational leadership researchers in response to the need to better explain the source of certain exemplary and ethical leader performance (Hannah & Avolio, 2011; Leonard, 1997; Thompson & Riggio, 2010; Wright & Goodstein, 2007). However, efforts to operationalize character are criticized for their abstract and idealistic trait-based conceptualizations that fail to capture the reality of leadership and situational dynamics (Conger & Hollenbeck, 2010). The purpose of this study is to develop a more robust theoretical approach to character that is empirically grounded in the real life complexities of leadership. Combat provides the context for this study because the adversity of such an extreme context tends to make character a more salient and readily observable phenomenon than in more conventional organizational contexts (Wright & Quick, 2011; Hannah, Uhl-Bien, Avolio, & Cavarretta, 2009). I employed an ethnographic grounded theory design to gain a unique insider's perspective absent in many studies of leader character (Charmaz, 2009; Parry & Meindl, 2002). Data collection involved (1) physically embedding for six months with U.S. Army small unit infantry leaders operating in combat in Afghanistan; (2) participant observation in the full range of combat activities engaged in by these leaders; and (3) in-depth semi-structured interviews with key informants. An important contribution of this study is that the emergent concept of leader character is fully situated in the leader's social and environmental context represented by the leader's inner struggle to resist the adversity of combat and uphold the standards of leadership. In this dialectical framework, certain agentic resources important to resolving this inner struggle emerge as the locus of leader character. This agency-based concept of character is rooted in the internalization of the standards of leadership through identity-conferring normative commitments and entails particular motivational and volitional capacities. These produce a distinct mode of functioning--a strong form of personal moral agency--characterized by the leader's willingness to sacrifice in upholding standards in the face of adversity. This primacy of leader agency over adversity is the hallmark of leader character--what I call the character to lead. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Business Administration 2013

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A felicidade (eudaimonia) e a amizade (philia) são temas amplamente abordados na obra de Aristóteles, não obstante, são tratados com destaque em suas obras sobre a ética e a política, especialmente na Ética a Nicômacos. A presente dissertação analisa a relação e complementariedade destes dois temas na Ética Nicomaquéia e a metodologia de investigação para a composição deste estudo é a bibliográfica, dispondo-se como aporte teórico basilar as investigações, considerações e argumentações de Aristóteles na obra acima citada, especificamente nos Livros I, II e X que tratam da temática da felicidade e nos Livros VIII e IX, que abordam o tema da amizade. Além das contribuições surgidas das análises elucidativas de comentaristas e intérpretes dos temas investigados e do universo da obra aristotélica. Os resultados da pesquisa permitem considerar que Aristóteles pondera que o convívio dos homens virtuosos, estabelecido na amizade, é propício para promover a consecução da finalidade da existência do homem, que é a felicidade. Estes resultados conduzem, como conclusão, ao reconhecimento da inter-relação e complementariedade dos conceitos de felicidade e amizade perfeita, conformando uma díade substancial, tanto para a realização da existência quanto para a completude, na excelência, da vida dos homens. / Happiness (eudaimonia) and friendship (philia) are widely discussed themes in the work of Aristotle, however, are treated especially in his works on ethics and politics, especially in the Nicomachean Ethics. This dissertation analyzes the relationship and complementarity of these two issues in the Nicomachean Ethics and the research methodology for the composition of this study is bibliographic, providing itself as basic theoretical background to the investigations, considerations and arguments of Aristotle in the above cited work, specifically in the Books I, II and X dealing with the theme of happiness and books VIII and IX, which address the theme of friendship. In addition to the contributions arising from enlightening analysis of commentators and interpreters of the research topics and the universe of Aristotle's work.The survey results support the conclusion that Aristotle argues that the society of virtuous men, established in friendship is conducive to promoting the achievement of the purpose of man's existence, which is happiness. These results lead in conclusion, the recognition of the interrelationship and complementarity of the concepts of happiness and perfect friendship, forming a substantial dyad, both for the realization of existence as to the completeness, excellence, of human life.

Thesis advisor: Richard Atkins / The topic of this thesis is testimonial epistemic injustice in the courtroom context. Testimonial epistemic injustice occurs when someone’s testimony is unduly downgraded (credibility deficit) or unduly upgraded (credibility excess) due to a structural social prejudice held by the listener. Examples of structural social prejudices are prejudices concerning race, gender, class, and degree of education obtained by the testifier. Credibility assessments are influenced by listeners’ biases, the social context of the interaction, and the perceived disposition of the testifier. In this paper, I intend to examine (1) what testimonial epistemic injustice is and (2) what can be done to address testimonial epistemic injustice in courtrooms. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2022. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Scholar of the College. / Discipline: Philosophy.

Η παρούσα εργασία επισημαίνοντας την ηθική κρίση, την απαξίωση των ιστορικά και πολιτιστικά επικυρωμένων αξιών, με επίπτωση κυρίαρχα στον τομέα της εκπαίδευσης, φιλοδοξεί να παρουσιάσει προτάσεις - λύσεις, καταφεύγοντας σε μια κορυφαία προσωπικότητα του αρχαιοελληνικού κόσμου, τον Αριστοτέλη. Αναπτύσσει τις απόψεις του περί παιδείας, περί των ηθικών και διανοητικών αρετών και περί φιλίας, προσδίδοντας στο περιεχόμενό τους ευρύτατες διαστάσεις. Αν μεταφέρουμε στο εκπαιδευτικό σύστημα τις προτάσεις του περί παιδείας, θα διατυπώνουμε λόγο για μια αγωγή που δεν υποτάσσεται σε σκοπιμότητες. Αν ο διδάσκων ακολουθήσει τις ανωτέρω αρετές και τις αφομοιώσει ο διδασκόμενος, τότε και οι δυο θα έχουν ένα στέρεο πεδίο ικανοτήτων, για να βρίσκονται σ’ έναν συνεχή αναστοχασμό και αυτοστοχασμό. Η έννοια της φιλίας μπορεί να μεταμορφώσει θετικά το κοινωνικό - πολιτικό - οικονομικό και εκπαιδευτικό σύστημα. Στο τελευταίο κεφάλαιο της εργασίας παρουσιάζεται η καταγγελτική κριτική από σύγχρονους στοχαστές (Μαρκούζε, Λυοτάρ) για τις συνέπειες του παθογενούς συστήματος που επηρεάζει και τον τομέα της εκπαίδευσης. Υπάρχει ένα κρίσιμο ερώτημα αναφορικά με το αν η εκπαίδευση συγκροτεί ώριμα πολιτικά υποκείμενα, ή αν έρχεται να διαμορφώσει ανταγωνιστικά οικονομικά όντα. / The present work by highlighting the crisis of moral values, the depreciation of the historically and culturally validated values, with an impact mainly on Education, intends to present proposals - solutions, resorting to a leading personality of the Ancient-Greek world, Aristotle. It develops his views on Education, the moral and intellectual virtues and friendship, adding broad dimensions to their content. If we pass his proposals about education into the established system, we will be talking about education which is not subordinated to expediency. If the teacher followed the above virtues and the learner assimilated them, then they would both acquire a solid skill basis so that they would be in a continuous reflection and self-reflection. The notion of friendship could positively transform the socio-political, economic and educational system. The final chapter of the work presents the denunciatory criticism by modern scholars (Marcuse, Lyotar) about the consequences of the pathogenic system affecting the field of education. There is one critical question concerning whether education constitutes mature political subjects or if it comes to formulate competitive economic beings.

Ce travail de thèse porte sur la notion de prudence dans la pensée castillane médiévale et moderne, depuis le début du règne d'Alphonse X de Castille, dit « le roi Sage », en 1252, jusqu'à la mort de Philippe II, dit « le Prudent », en 1598. Le choix d'une période longue a permis d'analyser dans toute sa complexité le processus de réception et d'adaptation des doctrines classiques sur la prudence par les traducteurs, commentateurs et penseurs politiques castillans. La thèse montre comment ce concept défini dans les textes de l'Antiquité grecque et latine a nourri leur réflexion sur la double nature, rationnelle et politique, de l'homme : la prudence est en effet la vertu intellectuelle qui définit l'homme comme animal politique, et plus particulièrement, chez Aristote, le gouvernant et le législateur. La transmission, fidèle ou non, de la doctrine aristotélicienne des vertus intellectuelles en général, et de la prudence en particulier, se révèle le lieu d'un affrontement entre deux paradigmes royaux dans la Castille d'alors : face au modèle d'un roi sage (sapiens, sabio) disposant d'un pouvoir absolu, que les monarques successifs s'attachent à maintenir tout au long de la période, la haute noblesse et les maîtres ès arts salmantins posent l'image d'un roi simplement prudent au sens où l'entend Aristote, c'est-à-dire faillible, pour mieux l'inviter à gouverner en s'appuyant sur les élites de son royaume. / This PhD thesis deals with the notion of prudence in medieval and modern Castilian thought, from the beginning of the reign of Alfonso X of Castile, known as “the Wise King”, in 1252, until the death of Philip II, called “the Prudent King”, in 1598. The choice of a long period enabled to analyze in all its complexity the process of reception and adaptation of classical doctrines of Prudence by Castilian translators, commentators and political thinkers. The thesis shows how this concept defined in Greek and Latin Antiquity texts nourished their thougt on the dual nature of man (rational and political): Prudence is indeed the intellectual virtue that defines Man as a Political animal ; in Aristotle's Ethics and Politics, this virtue defines more particularly the ruler and the legislator. This study shows how the transmission, faithful or not, of the Aristotelian doctrine of intellectual virtues in general, and of Prudence in particular, was in Castile the place of a confrontation between two royal paradigms: opposite the model of a Wise king (sapiens, sabio) possessing absolute power, which the successive monarchs strove to maintain throughout the period, the high nobility and the Salmantine Masters of Arts proposed the image of a merely prudent ruler. This latest model, defined by Aristotle as being fallible, allowed them to claim their participation in the governance of the Kingdom.

Six novels of Martin Amis--The Rachel Papers, Dead Babies, Success, Money: A Suicide Note, London Fields, and The Information--are analyzed to determine to what extent they uphold moral standards traditional in Western society, particularly the categories of virtue that have descended from Aristotle and Aquinas. Thus the novels are analyzed in relation to what they show about the three theological virtues of faith, hope, and love, the cardinal virtues of prudence, temperance, courage, and justice, and the intellectual virtues of knowledge, art, skill, and understanding. Nearly all of these virtues turn out to be important in varying degrees. Faith and hope are mocked, and courage is given incidental attention. The other virtues, however, are strongly upheld, including prudence and temperance, and particularly love, justice, and the intellectual virtues. In the earlier novels, the protagonists understand love between adults egoistically, only as romance or sexual passion, with emphasis not on the welfare of the other but on getting what one wants. The need for parental love is upheld, however, with a clear understanding that its lack produces danger for the children and for society. The protagonists pity the weak, but have little understanding of love as self-sacrifice. Ego-based justice predominates as the primary motive—obtaining what the self thinks is deserved. The intellectual virtues then become servants of this self-centered justice rather than servants of others-centered love. Though the extreme results of this situation are decried, especially in Dead Babies, generally the protagonists do not realize the extent of their egoism and lack of love. In London Fields and The Information, self-sacrifice, particularly for the sake of children, emerges, and what little hope there is is invested in family love. Love between adults is still largely justice-based, but there is some evidence that all the virtues, including justice and intellect, are subordinated to love, especially family love, love that considers the welfare of others.

Empirical interest in promoting virtues has dramatically increased over the last decade. The present study will focus primarily on the warmth-based virtues of forgiveness and humility, and the conscientiousness-based virtues of patience and self-control. I introduced participants (N = 135) to a workbook intended to promote one of these four virtues, or to promote general positivity for participants in a workbook control condition. I hypothesized that virtue workbooks would produce higher levels of the target virtue, more so than in both a non-action control condition (n = 33) and in a control condition that completes a workbook that promotes general positivity. The forgiveness, humility, patience, and positivity workbooks did indeed build their respective targets. Virtue workbook participants reaped more benefits than the positivity participants, but both improved more than the control condition. These findings suggest that workbook interventions serve a valuable purpose in the promotion of goodness.

Edward Westermarck, finlandssvensk sociolog och filosof, studeras med Lorraine Dastons och Peter Galisons (D&G) metod för att analysera vetenskapshistoriska förändringar. Syftet är att testa ändamålsenligheten i D&G:s analysmodell för att studera metodologiska och innehållsliga förändringar. Användningen av epistemic virtues prövas som ett sätt att identifiera interaktionen mellan dynamiska fält och övergångar mellan olika doktriner under decennierna kring sekelskiftet 1800/1900. Metoden tillämpas på Westermarck och hans samtida i sociologins grundargeneration. Westermarck och Durkheim betraktas som arketypiska företrädare för en sociologisk respektive en biologisk – evolutionistisk – funktionalism. Malinowski är en brygga mellan de två. Undersökningen analyserar kunskapsteoretiska och ideologiska skillnader och likheter mellan forskarna. Deras förhållande till vetenskaplighet som epistemic virtue analyseras. Dynamiska fält och förändringslaviner beskrivs för att belysa kontinuitet och diskontinuitet i doktrinutvecklingen. Studien visar att metoden kan tillämpas även på humaniora och beteendevetenskaperna. Westermarcks kritik av Freud och Oidipuskomplexet exemplifierar hur doktrinförändringar fångas upp i andra vetenskapsområden – sociobiologin. Undersökningen visar att interaktionen sker också mellan olika vetenskapsområden och hur förändringarna mellan dessa sker diakront.

Neste trabalho, nos dedicamos ao estudo da generosidade, investigando, em um contexto psicogenético, os juízos morais das crianças relativos aos seguintes temas: a generosidade em contraposição à justiça (para consigo mesmo) e generosidade e gratidão. Participaram desta pesquisa 60 alunos de uma escola particular da cidade do Rio de Janeiro RJ, com 6, 9 e 12 anos, igualmente divididos quanto ao sexo e à idade. Realizamos entrevistas individuais baseadas em histórias sobre os temas em questão. Dos resultados encontrados, destacamos que, diante de um conflito entre a generosidade e a justiça (para consigo mesmo), os juízos das crianças de 6 anos nos remetem mais à generosidade, e os critérios utilizados pelos mais velhos, para hierarquizar as duas dimensões morais, estão atrelados a uma noção geral de justiça. No que diz respeito ao tema da generosidade e gratidão, verificamos que a maioria das crianças de todas as idades pesquisadas não atribui obrigatoriedade ao agradecimento e/ ou à retribuição a uma manifestação de generosidade. Embora desprovida de obrigatoriedade, a retribuição é indicada e admirada, nas suas variadas formas, pelos participantes. Essa indicação e admiração, todavia, não fazem da retribuição um critério que os leve a agir generosamente, nos mostrando, assim, sinais de autonomia nos juízos relacionados à generosidade desde a mais tenra infância. Ao indicarem um agradecimento ou uma retribuição à ação generosa, as crianças mais novas ora ressaltam o aspecto concreto da recompensa, ora se referem à materialidade das regras da polidez, ainda exteriores à consciência. Dessa forma, ora visualizamos a incipiência de suas ferramentas intelectuais, ora nos deparamos com características da heteronomia infantil em seus juízos sobre o tema. A recompensa com uma ação concreta predomina nas sugestões espontâneas de agradecimento e/ ou retribuição das crianças de 9 e 12 anos, e a demonstração verbal de reconhecimento prevalece entre os mais velhos quando comparada exclusivamente à recompensa material. Tal reconhecimento pressupõe uma avaliação das intenções daquele que agiu generosamente, imprescindível na manifestação da gratidão. Como as crianças mais novas ainda conferem maior importância aos efeitos de um ato do que à intenção de seu autor, parece-nos válido afirmar que não é a gratidão propriamente dita que comparece em seus discursos, mas uma concepção mais elementar da virtude, o que nos leva a admitir um desenvolvimento da mesma ao longo da infância. Nossos resultados também confirmam a íntima relação do sentimento de simpatia com a generosidade, já apontada por outras pesquisas da área. Uma comoção com o sofrimento alheio comparece nas argumentações das crianças que decidiram pela ação generosa para com o outro. Com porcentagens altas em todas as faixas etárias pesquisadas, esse argumento predomina na menor idade e decresce nas idades seguintes. Tal resultado nos mostra que é mesmo a simpatia que inspira as crianças pequenas a decidirem pela manifestação da virtude. Essa sensibilidade para com outrem também interfere nos juízos dos participantes mais velhos, mas, no transcurso do desenvolvimento, princípios de reciprocidade e justiça também passam a regular decisões que culminam na generosidade / In this work, we dedicate ourselves to the study of generosity, investigating, in a psychogenetic context, children\'s moral judgment relating to the following themes: generosity as opposed to justice (for oneself) and generosity and gratitude. Participated in this survey, 60 pupils from a private school in the city of Rio de Janeiro - RJ, with 6, 9 and 12 years of age, equally divided as to sex and age. We conducted one-on-one interviews based on stories about the themes in question. Of the results found, we highlighted that, faced with a conflict between generosity and justice (to oneself), the judgment of 6 year old children refer to generosity, and the criteria used by the older ones, to organize into a hierarchy the two moral dimensions, are tied to a general notion of justice. On the subject of generosity and gratitude, we find that the majority of children of all ages surveyed do not assign an obligation as to what concerns gratitude and/or consideration as a reciprocation to an expression of generosity. Although devoid of obligation, reciprocation is indicated and admired, in its various forms, by the participants. This indication and admiration, however, does not make reciprocation a criterion that makes them act generously, thus showing us signs of autonomy in judgments related to generosity from an early childhood. When indicating an appreciation or a reciprocation to the generous action, younger children either point out the specific aspects of reward, or refer to the materiality of the rules of politeness, still exterior from their consciousness. In this way, we see how incipient are their intellectual tools, or we are faced with characteristics of infant heteronomy on their judgment of the theme. Rewards with a concrete action predominates in spontaneous suggestions of gratitude and/or reciprocation in children of 9 and 12 years old, and a verbal demonstration of gratitude prevails among the elderly when compared exclusively to material reward. Such recognition requires an evaluation of the intentions of that who acted generously, essential in the expressions of gratitude. As younger children still attach great importance to the effects of an act than to the intention of its author, it is valid to say that it is not gratitude itself that appears on their speech, but a more elementary conception of virtue, which leads us to admit its development throughout childhood. Our results also confirm the close relationship of the feeling of sympathy with generosity, already pointed out by other researches in this area. A commotion with the suffering of others appears in the arguments of children who decided for the generous action with each other. With high percentages in all age groups surveyed, this argument predominates in the lowest age and decreases in the following ages. This result shows that it is sympathy that inspires the young children to decide for the manifestation of virtue. This sensitivity to others also interferes in the judgment of the older participants, but, in the course of the development, principles of reciprocity and justice also regulate decisions that culminate in generosity