Ethics and the Discovery of the Unconscious
Overview
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.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780791434260
- ISBN-10: 0791434265
- Publisher: State University of New York Press
- Publish Date: July 1997
- Dimensions: 9.08 x 6.01 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.83 pounds
- Page Count: 264
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