Ethics and the Discovery of the Unconscious
by John H. Riker
SUNY Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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John H. Riker, PhD, is professor of philosophy at Colorado College. His publications include Ethics and the Discovery of the Unconscious, Human Excellence and an Ecological Conception of the Psyche, and The Art of Ethical Thinking.
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- Ethics and the Discovery of the Unconscious
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- Just as volcanic eruptions can suddenly and catastrophically change forever their surrounding landscapes, so conceptual innovations can irrevocably alter the way we experience ourselves and our worlds.
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- Mann, Richard D.
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- Scott, Charles E.
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