Ethics and the discovery of the unconscious

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Label

Ethics and the discovery of the unconscious

Statement of responsibility

John Hanwell Riker

Creator

• Riker, John H., 1943-

Subject

• trueElectronic books
• Electronic books
• trueEthics
• trueMoral development
• trueMorale
• Morals
• PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy
• PHILOSOPHY -- Social
• Psychologie
• truePsychology
• trueSocial Values
• Social values -- Psychological aspects
• Unconscious (Psychology)
• Valeurs sociales -- Aspect psychologique
• true Unknown Label
• Développement moral

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• SUNY series in transpersonal and humanistic psychology

Cataloging source

N$T

Characteristic

unknown

Dewey number

170/.1/9

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Series statement

• eBooks from EBSCOhost
• SUNY series in transpersonal and humanistic psychology