Why It Is Good to Be Good : Ethics, Kohut's Self Psychology, and Modern Society.

In Why It Is Good to be Good, John H. Riker argues that modernity, by undermining traditional religious and metaphysical grounds for moral belief, has left itself no way to explain why it is personally good to be a morally good person. Furthermore, modernity's regnant concept of the self as an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Riker, John H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2010.
Temas:
Kohut, Heinz.
Kohut, Heinz
Ethics.
Self psychology.
Psychology and philosophy.
Morale.
Psychologie du soi.
Psychologie et philosophie.
ethics (philosophy)
Ethics
Psychology and philosophy
Self psychology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The moral problem of modernity
  • Kohut's theory of the self
  • Kohut and the philosophic tradition
  • A new metapsychology : Freud, Aristotle, Heidegger, and Kohut
  • Why it is good to be good
  • A self psychological vision of ethical life
  • Self psychology and modernity : actualizing self in the age of desire
  • Social transformations.

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