Ethics and the discovery of the unconscious
by John H. 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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Ethics and the discovery of the unconscious
1997, State University of New York Press
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0791434257 9780791434253
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-248) and index.
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