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Personhood, Identity and the good life for social beings

Blaine J. Fowers, Ph.D. University of Miami. Personhood, Identity and the good life for social beings. Big Picture. Personhood is central Identity core of personhood Identity is social in nature Relational identity in infancy Relational identity in adulthood

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Personhood, Identity and the good life for social beings

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  1. Blaine J. Fowers, Ph.D. University of Miami Personhood, Identity and the good life for social beings

  2. Big Picture • Personhood is central • Identity core of personhood • Identity is social in nature • Relational identity in infancy • Relational identity in adulthood • Identity serves social functions • Aristotle’s function argument • The good life for social beings

  3. What is a Person? • Agency • Rights • Dignity • Temporal unity • Moral responsibility • Self-awareness • Self-interpretive

  4. The Centrality of Identity • Necessary for personhood • Identity distinguishes • No “I” without “you” • No “we” without “them” • Identity is relational

  5. Neonate Sociality • Facial recognition • Synchrony • Rhythmic interaction • Temporal matching • Social contingency • Mutual gaze first • Body games

  6. Infant Sociality • Mutually Responsive Orientation • Responsiveness • Distress • Needs • Bids for attention • Influence attempts • Shared positive affect

  7. “Self”-Regulation • Affect regulation • Highest positive arousal • “External” regulation • Mutual regulation • Self-regulation • Self-recognition • Verbal self-reference

  8. Toddler Sociality • Committed Compliance • Moral self • Recognize rules and standards • Self-evaluation • Moral emotions

  9. Collective Identity • Social categorization • Individual identity • Collective identity • Social categorization heuristic • Social identity heuristic

  10. Collective Identity • Identify who matters • Transformation of motivation • In-group favoritism • Prioritize in-group over self • Loyalty heuristic

  11. Group Goal Transformation De Cremer & van Dijk, 2002

  12. Group Loyalty Van Vugt & Hart 2004

  13. Baseball Rivalry Favored Team Success Pleasure Ratings Ventral Striatum Rival Team Failure Favored Team Failure Pain Ratings Aggression Endorsement Anterior Cingulate Cortex Rival Team Success Cikara, Botvinick, & Fiske, 2011

  14. Aristotle’s Natural Ethics • Priority of the Good • Function argument

  15. Function Argument

  16. Human Social Functions • Identity takes enormous energy • Social coordination • Attachment • Cooperation • Coordinated activity • Norms • Particularity • Accountability

  17. Ethical Beings • Essentially social creatures • The Good Life for social beings • Ethical questions • Social excellences • Ubiquity of ethics • “We” as important as “I” • The Good as an attractor

  18. Acknowledgement This work was funded by a generous grant from the Arsht Ethics Initiatives and the University of Miami Ethics Programs

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