Moral Transformation as Shifting (Im)Possibilities
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216275%3A25210%2F24%3A39922375" target="_blank" >RIV/00216275:25210/24:39922375 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10892-024-09480-x" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10892-024-09480-x</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10892-024-09480-x" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10892-024-09480-x</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Moral Transformation as Shifting (Im)Possibilities
Original language description
The phenomenon of moral transformation, though important, has received little attention in virtue ethics. In this paper we propose a virtue-ethical model of moral transformation as character transformation by tracking the development of new identity-defining ('core') character traits, their expressions, and their priority structure, through the change in what appears as possible or impossible to the moral agent. We propose that character transformation culminates when what previously appeared as morally possible to the agent now appears impossible, i.e. unconceived and unthinkable, moving through stages of transformation where some possibilities gradually disappear while others open up. While we show an example of moral transformation towards virtue, we allow that such transformation can occur in the opposite direction, hence we make claims about 'character traits' rather than virtues of vices. Through the example of former slave-trader Rodrigo's transformation in the film The Mission, we follow the parallel development of new objects of value and ways of valuing (with respect to a group of indigenous people of South America) with the closing down of the possibility of disrespecting and harming them, to the end-point of transformation, where allowing their capture is for Rodrigo both unconceived and, when conceived, unthinkable.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60302 - Ethics (except ethics related to specific subfields)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EH22_010%2F0008120" target="_blank" >EH22_010/0008120: MSCA Fellowships CZ at the University of Pardubice</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Ethics
ISSN
1382-4554
e-ISSN
1572-8609
Volume of the periodical
2024
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
195-210
UT code for WoS article
001228191900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85193594827