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Ethics and the discovery of the unconscious /
This book shows why the discovery of the unconscious by Nietzsche and Freud requires a reconception of the concepts of moral agency and responsibility and even of morality itself. It explicates how contemporary psychology has taken over the traditional task of ethics in elucidating a theory of human...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©1997.
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| Colección: | SUNY series in transpersonal and humanistic psychology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book shows why the discovery of the unconscious by Nietzsche and Freud requires a reconception of the concepts of moral agency and responsibility and even of morality itself. It explicates how contemporary psychology has taken over the traditional task of ethics in elucidating a theory of human well-being, but criticizes this psychology for being unable to generate adequate notions of either responsibility or moral agency. Riker develops a new moral psychology in which the reality of unconscious functioning is included within a theory of responsibility, and the agent's primary ethic concern becomes knowing what her unconscious motivations are and integrating them into a morally and psychologically mature self. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 254 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-248) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585057672 9780585057675 1438417357 9781438417356 |