Exemplars, Imitation, and Character Formation

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

Part I Philosophical Inquiry into Exemplars and Imitation 1. Moral Charisma: Why We (Almost) Can’t Help Imitating Virtue 2. Exemplar Communities and Moral Formation 3. Imitating or Emulating? How Exemplar Education Can Avoid Being Indoctrinating 4. Model Exemplars 5. Admiration and its Companion Emotions Part II Psychological Inquiry into Exemplars and Imitation 6. The Role of Empathy in the Appraisal Process of Holocaust Rescuers 7. Families with Exemplary Commitments to Shared Purpose: An Exemplar Study 8. Traditions and Exemplars in Spiritual Formation: Toward an Integration of Catholic Theology and Developmental Science 9. Modeling Exemplary Practical Wisdom and Discernment in Sociotechnical Communities 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 11. Imitating God 12. Challenging Aristotle’s Privilege of Virtue with Christ 13. The Exemplary Life of St. Antony: A Case for Intercessory Exemplarism 14. A Triadic Model of How to Become Like the Saints