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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 ethical concern becomes knowing what her unconscious motivations are and integrating them into a morally and psychologically mature self.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy Ethics & moral philosophy

• Full title: Ethics and the Discovery of the Unconscious
• Author: John Riker
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 254
• EAN: 9780791434260
• ID: 04699929
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Weight: 360 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 153 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. July 1997

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