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Ethics and the Discovery of the Unconscious (Suny Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)

Name: Ethics and the Discovery of the Unconscious (Suny Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)
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ISBN: 9780791434253

John Hanwell Riker

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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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Year:

2022

Publisher:

State University of New York Press

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

0791434257

ISBN 13:

9780791434253