| Ethics and the Discovery of the Unconscious Contributor(s): Riker, John Hanwell (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791434265 ISBN-13: 9780791434260 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1997 Annotation: 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 ethical concern becomes knowing what her unconscious motivations are and integrating them into a morally and psychologically mature self. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Psychology | History - Medical | Psychiatry - General |
| Dewey: 170.19 |
| LCCN: 96-41498 |
| Series: Suny Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.01" W x 9.08" (0.83 lbs) 254 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
