Moral Psychology of Envy

Sara Protasi is associate professor of philosophy at University of Puget Sound. Her research interests are primarily in moral psychology, ethics, and philosophical psychology

• Introduction: Striving to Be Better, Sulking in a Corner, Stealing the Spotlight, Spoiling Someone’s Joy: The Many Faces of Envy by Sara Protasi1. A Sociocultural Perspective on Envy: On Covetous Desire, the Evil Eye, and the Social Regulation of Equality by Patricia Rodriguez Mosquera2. How Envy and Being Envied Shape Social Hierarchies by Jens Lange and Jan Crusius3. On the Epistemic Effects of Envy in Academia by Felipe Romero4. “I could have been you”: Existential Envy and the Self by Íngrid Vendrell Ferran5. Envy, Compassion and the Buddhist (No)Self by Christina Chuang6. Let the Donkeys Be Donkeys: In Defense of Inspiring Envy by Maria Silvia Vaccarezza and Ariele Niccoli7. Malicious Moral Envy by Vanessa Carbonell8. “You’re Just Jealous!”: On Envious Blame by Neal Tognazzini9. The Fact of Envy: Trends in the History of Modern Economics by Miriam Bankovsky10. The Politics of Envy: Outlaw Emotions in Capitalist Societies by Alfred Archer, Alan Thomas and Bart Engelen11. To Envy an A

The Moral Psychology of Envy is a must-read for anyone seriously interested in rehabilitating envy as a morally valuable emotion. It paints a nuanced and refreshing picture of envy’s contribution to individual and collective flourishing.