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Ethics and the Discovery of the Unconscious (Suny Series in Transpersonal and Humanistics Psychology) - Softcover

Book 11 of 43: SUNY series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology

Riker, John Hanwell

 
9780791434260: Ethics and the Discovery of the Unconscious (Suny Series in Transpersonal and Humanistics Psychology)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0791434265 ISBN 13: 9780791434260
Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1997

Synopsis

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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About the Author

John Hanwell Riker is Professor of Philosophy at Colorado College. He is the author of Human Excellence and an Ecological Conception of the Psyche, also published by SUNY Press, and The Art of Ethical Thinking.

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Publisher
State University of New York Press
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0791434265
ISBN 13 
9780791434260
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
264