Rewriting moral character and professional virtue

该项目旨在解决道德品质是否激励行为以及如何激励行为的哲学问题，通过发展一种道德品质的创新解释，利用两个被忽视的研究机构：“道德认同”心理学和叙事自我构成哲学。由此产生的关于道德品质的叙述声称，道德身份激发了道德行为，因此，巩固了道德品质。然后，该项目将这些知识应用于职业道德，实证地测试职业道德身份对行动的影响程度，并创造新颖的、以自我叙述为中心的策略来培养职业道德。

This project aims to solve the philosophical problems of whether moral character motivates action and how it does so by developing an innovative account of moral character that draws on two overlooked bodies of research: the psychology of ‘moral identity’ and the philosophy of narrative self-constitution. The resulting narrative account of moral character claims that moral identities motivate moral action and, therefore, underpin moral character. The project then applies this knowledge to professional ethics, empirically testing the extent to which professional moral identities influence action and creating novel, self-narrative focused strategies to foster professional virtue.