Ethics and the discovery of the unconscious /
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| Author / Creator: | Riker, John H., 1943- |
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| Imprint: | Albany : State University of New York Press, c1997. |
| Description: | x, 254 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SUNY series in transpersonal and humanistic psychology. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2759680 |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 254 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-248) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0791434257 0791434265 |