pro-attitude - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
pro-attitude (plural pro-attitudes)
- Any of a variety of attitudes in favour of something, such as approval, admiration, liking, preference, esteem.
- Blackburn, S., The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, 2nd edition (2008)
- The term (and also its antonym, "con-attitude") is used by Patrick Nowell-Smith in Ethics (1954), pp. 111-112
- Steven Collins describes the word in Selfless persons: imagery and thought in Theravāda Buddhism (1982) as "a term from modern ethical writing".