Ebook: The moral psychology of gratitude

Acknowledgments; The Emotion-Virtue-Debt Triad of Gratitude: An Introduction to The Moral Psychology of Gratitude; Part I: Reasons and Action; 1 Gratitude: Generic versus Deep; 2 Acting from Gratitude; Part II: Gratitude, Rights, and Duties; 3 Obligations of Gratitude: Directedness without Rights; 4 Debts of Gratitude; 5 Gratitude, Rights, and Benefit; 6 Do Children Owe Their Parents Gratitude?; Part III: Gratitude as a Reactive Attitude; 7 Gratitude as a Second-Personal Attitude (of the Heart); 8 Gratitude and Resentment: Some Asymmetries; 9 Gratitude and Norms: On the Social Function of Gratitude; Part IV: Authentic Selves and Brains; 10 Neural Perspectives on Gratitude; 11 Gratitude, Authenticity, and Self-Authorship; Part V: Gratitude and Virtue; 12 Gratitude as a Virtue; 13 Gratitude, Truth, and Lies; 14 Cross-Pollination in the Gardens of Virtue; 15 The Virtue of Gratitude and Its Associated Vices; 16 Gratitude, Friendship, and Mutuality: Reflections on Three Characters in Bleak House; Index; About the Contributors.;This volume provides readers with the state-of-the-art in research on gratitude. It does so in the form of sixteen never-before published articles on the emotion by leading voices in philosophy and the sciences of the mind.