Exemplars, Imitation, and Character Formation

Eric Yang is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Santa Clara University, USA

Introduction

Eric Yang

Part I: Philosophical Inquiry into Exemplars and Imitation

1 Moral Charisma: Why We (Almost) Can’t Help Imitating Virtue

Heidi M. Giebel

2 Exemplar Communities and Moral Formation

Aaron Cobb

3 Imitating or Emulating? How Exemplar Education Can Avoid Being Indoctrinating

Bart Engelen & Alfred Archer

4 Model Exemplars

Eric Yang

5 Admiration and its Companion Emotions

Sabrina B. Little

Part II: Psychological Inquiry into Exemplars and Imitation

6 The Role of Empathy in the Appraisal Process of Holocaust Rescuers

James A. Van Slyke

7 Families with Exemplary Commitments to Shared Purpose: An Exemplar Study

Kendall Cotton Bronk

8 Traditions and Exemplars in Spiritual Formation: Toward an Integration of Catholic Theology and Developmental Science

Timothy Reilly

9 Modeling Exemplary Practical Wisdom and Discernment in Sociotechnical Communities

Mark Graves

Part III: Christian Inquiry into Exemplars and Imitation

10 Martin Luther King Jr.’s Nonviolent War for the Soul of America: Radical Love as Revolutionary Imitation of Christ

Emily Dumler-Winckler

11 Imitating God

Thomas Jay Oord

12 Challenging Aristotle’s Privilege of Virtue with Christ

Lily M. Abadal

13 The Exemplary Life of St. Antony: A Case for Intercessory Exemplarism

Br. John Baptist Santa Ana, O.S.B.

14 A Triadic Model of How to Become Like the Saints

Grace Hibshman

Afterword

Linda Zagzebski