Open AccessPersonality as an ecology of values
Author(s) -
Aleksandar Fatić,
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Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
socium i vlastʹ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2949-0731
pISSN - 1996-0522
DOI - 10.22394/1996-0522-2021-2-18-25
Subject(s) - value (mathematics) , perspective (graphical) , sociology , politics , irrational number , environmental ethics , identity (music) , argument (complex analysis) , morality , social psychology , personality , positive economics , epistemology , psychology , political science , law , economics , philosophy , biochemistry , physics , geometry , mathematics , chemistry , artificial intelligence , machine learning , computer science , acoustics
The paper examines the concept of individual and collective value identities based an emotionalist understanding of values. The main perspective it discusses is one where emotions are the most important practical instruments for the clarification of individual and collective values. The argument implies that moral emotions are not irrational, but have a logic of their own which can reliably pinpoint the persons’ value system; emotions are thus crucial building blocks of an ethics which is able to enhance personal and moral identity. This particular ecology of moral emotions is pivotal in crisis periods, such as the global pandemics, wars or system crashes, either economic, or political, security, diplomatic or cultural. In the current circumstances, where the already shaken individual and collective values throughout the world have been shaken by the Covid 19 pandemic, understanding identities as fundamentally couched in moral emotions may be critical to saving our cultures and our legacies of social and moral capital.