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...

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1. Verfasser:	Riker, John H. (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Albany State Univ. of New York Press 1997
Schriftenreihe:	SUNY series in transpersonal and humanistic psychology
Schlagworte:	Psychologie Ethics Moral development Morals Psychology Social Values Social values > Psychological aspects Unconscious (Psychology) Unbewusstes Ethik
Zusammenfassung:	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 reponsibility 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.
Beschreibung:	X, 254 S.
ISBN:	0791434257 0791434265