| The Harmony of the Soul: Mental Health and Moral Virtue Reconsidered Contributor(s): Weiner, Neal O. (Author) |
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ISBN: 079141731X ISBN-13: 9780791417317 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy |
| Dewey: 171.2 |
| LCCN: 93020449 |
| Series: Suny the Philosophy of Psychology |
| Physical Information: (0.98 lbs) 196 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Harmony of the Soul creates a naturalistic grounding for ethics and a moral grounding for psychotherapy. It is an original and startling synthesis of the ideas of mental health and moral virtue based on neglected affinities between classical Greek ethics, contemporary virtue ethics, sociobiology, and the basic presuppositions of psychotherapy. A central thesis of the book is that we can assume "the worst" about what science tells us about the human animal without having to sacrifice any of the things that are of most importance to ethics: virtue and the good life, harmony of the soul, freedom, conscience, and moral knowledge. |