

The Character Gap
How Good Are We?
Author: Christian B. Miller
Narrator: Johnny Heller
Unabridged: 5 hr 54 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 09/19/2018
Author: Christian B. Miller
Narrator: Johnny Heller
Unabridged: 5 hr 54 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 09/19/2018
Christian B. Miller is A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University and Director of the Character Project, funded by the John Templeton Foundation and Templeton World Charity Foundation. He is the author of over 75 papers as well as two books, Moral Character: An Empirical Theory and Character and Moral Psychology. He is also the editor or coeditor of Essays in the Philosophy of Religion, Character: New Directions from Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology, and several other volumes.
Simplistic philosophical and ethical analysis. Seems that if you're not a sociopath, then you can't really be a truly unvirtuous person to the author, which seems like a bit of a low bar. His takes on Christianity at the end felt out of place and were mildly offensive only because of how oversimplis......more
After finishing Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk by Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke, I loved it so much that I asked Justin for some recommendations on similar books, and he recommended this one. I’m so glad he recommended it because it’s now one of my favorite books that covers both mo......more
The cover of Christian B. Miller’s book, The Character Gap, has a picture of Gandhi at the top and Hitler at the bottom with a graded spectrum between them. The picture is fitting, for one of Miller’s central theses is that most people are neither as bad as we could be nor as good as we should be. W......more