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The Moral Psychology of Internal Conflict

Author : Ralph D. Ellis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110811900X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Moral Psychology of Internal Conflict written by Ralph D. Ellis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pushing back against the potential trivialization of moral psychology that would reduce it to emotional preferences, this book takes an enactivist, self-organizational, and hermeneutic approach to internal conflict between a basic exploratory drive motivating the search for actual truth, and opposing incentives to confabulate in the interest of conformity, authoritarianism, and cognitive dissonance, which often can lead to harmful worldviews. The result is a new possibility that ethical beliefs can have truth value and are not merely a result of ephemeral altruistic or cooperative feelings. It will interest moral and political psychologists, philosophers, social scientists, and all who are concerned with inner emotional conflicts driving ethical thinking beyond mere emotivism, and toward moral realism, albeit a fallibilist one requiring continual rethinking and self-reflection. It combines 'basic emotion' theories (e.g. Panksepp) with hermeneutic depth psychology. The result is a realist approach to moral thinking emphasizing coherence rather than foundationalist theory of knowledge.

On Loving Our Enemies

Author : Jerome Neu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199862990
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book On Loving Our Enemies written by Jerome Neu and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores moral questions that go beyond the issues commonly considered in the ethics of action.

Atlas of Moral Psychology

Author : Kurt Gray
Publisher : Guilford Publications
ISBN 13 : 1462541224
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Atlas of Moral Psychology written by Kurt Gray and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and cutting-edge volume maps out the terrain of moral psychology, a dynamic and evolving area of research. In 57 concise chapters, leading authorities and up-and-coming scholars explore fundamental issues and current controversies. The volume systematically reviews the empirical evidence base and presents influential theories of moral judgment and behavior. It is organized around the key questions that must be addressed for a complete understanding of the moral mind.

Plato's Moral Psychology

Author : Rachana Kamtekar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192519387
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Plato's Moral Psychology written by Rachana Kamtekar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato's Moral Psychology is concerned with Plato's account of the soul and its impact on our living well or badly, virtuously or viciously. The core of Plato's moral psychology is his account of human motivation, and Rachana Kamtekar argues that throughout the dialogues Plato maintains that human beings have a natural desire for our own good, and that actions and conditions contrary to this desire are involuntary (from which follows the 'Socratic paradox' that wrongdoing is involuntary). Our natural desire for our own good may be manifested in different ways: by our pursuit of what we calculate is best, but also by our pursuit of pleasant or fine things - pursuits which Plato assigns to distinct parts of the soul. Kamtekar develops a very different interpretation of Plato's moral psychology from the mainstream interpretation, according to which Plato first proposes that human beings only do what we believe to be the best of the things we can do ('Socratic intellectualism') and then in the middle dialogues rejects this in favour of the view that the soul is divided into parts with some good-dependent and some good-independent motivations ('the divided soul').

Character and Moral Psychology

Author : Christian B. Miller
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199674361
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Character and Moral Psychology written by Christian B. Miller and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Miller explores ethical implications of his new theory of character, which holds that our characters are made up of mixed traits with some morally positive and some morally negative aspects. He examines whether judgements of character are systematically erroneous, and assesses the challenge to virtue ethics from scepticism about virtue.

The Moral Psychology Handbook

Author : John M. Doris
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0199582149
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Moral Psychology Handbook written by John M. Doris and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Moral Psychology Handbook offers a survey of contemporary moral psychology, integrating evidence and argument from philosophy and the human sciences. The chapters cover major issues in moral psychology, including moral reasoning, character, moral emotion, positive psychology, moral rules, the neural correlates of ethical judgment, and the attribution of moral responsibility. Each chapter is a collaborative effort, written jointly by leading researchers in thefield.

Agency and Responsibility

Author : Jeanette Kennett
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191037001
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Agency and Responsibility written by Jeanette Kennett and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2003-10-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it ever possible for people to act freely and intentionally against their better judgement? Is it ever possible to act in opposition to one's strongest desire? If either of these questions are answered in the negative, the common-sense distinctions between recklessness, weakness of will and compulsion collapse. This would threaten our ordinary notion of self-control and undermine our practice of holding each other responsible for moral failure. So a clear and plausible account of how weakness of will and self-control are possible is of great practical significance. Taking the problem of weakness of will as her starting point, Jeanette Kennett builds an admirably comprehensive and integrated account of moral agency which gives a central place to the capacity for self-control. Her account of the exercise and limits of self-control vindicates the common-sense distinction between weakness of will and compulsion and so underwrites our ordinary allocations of moral responsibility. She addresses with clarity and insight a range of important topics in moral psychology, such as the nature of valuing and desiring, conceptions of virtue, moral conflict, and the varieties of recklessness (here characterised as culpable bad judgement) - and does so in terms which make their relations to each other and to the challenges of real life obvious. Agency and Responsibility concludes by testing the accounts developed of self-control, moral failure, and moral responsibility against the hard cases provided by acts of extreme evil.

Jung's Ethics

Author : Dan Merkur
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351743384
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Jung's Ethics written by Dan Merkur and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the first organized study of Jung's ethics. Drawing on direct quotes from all of his collected works, interviews, and seminars, psychoanalyst and religious scholar Dan Merkur provides a compendium of Jung’s thoughts on various topics and themes that comprise his theoretical corpus—from the personal unconscious, repression, dreams, good and evil, and the shadow, to collective phenomena such as the archetypes, synchronicity, the psychoid, the paranormal, God, and the Self, as well as his contributions to clinical method and technique including active imagination, inner dialogue, and the process of individuation and consciousness expansion. The interconnecting thread in Merkur's approach to the subject matter is to read Jung’s work through an ethical lens. What comes to light is how Merkur systematically portrays Jung as a moralist, but also as a complex thinker who situates the human being as an instinctual animal struggling with internal conflict and naturalized sin. Merkur exposes the tension and development in Jung’s thinking by exploring his innovative clinical-technical methods and experimentation, such as through active imagination, inner dialogue, and expressive therapies, hence underscoring unconscious creativity in dreaming, symbol formation, engaging the paranormal, and artistic productions leading to expansions of consciousness, which becomes a necessary part of individuation or the working through process in pursuit of self-actualization and wholeness. In the end, we are offered a unique presentation of Jung’s core theoretical and clinical ideas centering on an ethical fulcrum, whereby his moral psychology leads to a cure of souls. Jung’s Ethics will be of interest to academics, scholars, researchers, and practitioners in the fields of Jungian studies and analytical psychology, ethics, moral psychology, philosophy, religious studies, and mental health professionals focusing on the integration of humanities and psychoanalysis.

The Cultural Power of Personal Objects

Author : Jared Kemling
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438486189
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Power of Personal Objects written by Jared Kemling and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cultural Power of Personal Objects seeks to understand the value and efficacy of objects, places, and times that take on cultural power and reverence to such a degree that they are treated (whether metaphorically or actually) as "persons," or as objects with "personality"—they are living objects. Featuring both historical and theoretical sections, the volume details examples of this practice, including the wampum of certain Native American tribes, the tsukumogami of Japan, the sacred keris knives of Java, the personality of seagoing ships, the ritual objects of Hinduism and Ancient Egypt, and more. The theoretical contributions aim to provide context for the existence and experience of personal objects, drawing from a variety of disciplines. Offering a variety of new philosophical perspectives on the theme, while grounding the discussion in a historical context, The Cultural Power of Personal Objects broadens and reinvigorates our understanding of cultural meaning and experience.

The Moral Psychology of Guilt

Author : Bradford Cokelet
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786609665
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book The Moral Psychology of Guilt written by Bradford Cokelet and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers and psychologists come together to think systematically about the nature and value of guilt, looking at the biological origins and psychological nature of guilt, and then discussing the culturally enriched conceptions of this vital moral emotion.

Caring about Morality

Author : Thomas E. Wren
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262231633
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book Caring about Morality written by Thomas E. Wren and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Thomas Wren uncovers and assesses the largely hidden philosophical assumptions about human motivation that have shaped contemporary psychological theories about morality. Why do people care about being moral? What motivates us to interpret our lives in moral terms? In this book Thomas Wren uncovers and assesses the largely hidden philosophical assumptions about human motivation that have shaped contemporary psychological theories about morality. The traditional view is that truly moral men and women want to do what is right and good for its own sake'. However, this internalist perspective has been eclipsed in recent psychologies of morality in favor of the view that people act morally for the same extrinsic rewards and punishments that supposedly motivate every other sort of human action. Wren argues that it is possible to develop a social and behavioral science compatible with, and even based on, the conviction that morality is intrinsically motivated. Beginning with behaviorism and social learning theory and moving on to the more cognitive approaches of psychoanalytic and cognitive developmental theories of moral experience, Wren shows that these theories embody tacit but distinctive metaethical perspectives concerning the nature of moral judgment and what he calls "moral care," the tendency to think of reality in moral categories. Wren points out that this tendency is conceptually distinct from a specific "moral motive," such as benevolence or loyalty. He notes the difference between these two sorts of motivational tendencies in each of the psychological theories discussed, and derives results that are themselves subjected to the test of whether they can be subscribed to in good faith by men and women who are not only theorists but also moral agents. Wren's analysis of Piaget's theory is especially valuable and leads to a discussion of Kohlberg's later psychological work, a discussion that will open new areas of inquiry to philosophers.

Socratic Moral Psychology

Author : Thomas C. Brickhouse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139488422
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Socratic Moral Psychology written by Thomas C. Brickhouse and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socrates' moral psychology is widely thought to be 'intellectualist' in the sense that, for Socrates, every ethical failure to do what is best is exclusively the result of some cognitive failure to apprehend what is best. Until publication of this book, the view that, for Socrates, emotions and desires have no role to play in causing such failure went unchallenged. This book argues against the orthodox view of Socratic intellectualism and offers in its place a comprehensive alternative account that explains why Socrates believed that emotions, desires and appetites can influence human motivation and lead to error. Thomas C. Brickhouse and Nicholas D. Smith defend the study of Socrates' philosophy and offer an alternative interpretation of Socratic moral psychology. Their novel account of Socrates' conception of virtue and how it is acquired shows that Socratic moral psychology is considerably more sophisticated than scholars have supposed.

The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology

Author : Manuel Vargas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019264551X
Total Pages : 1121 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology written by Manuel Vargas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 1121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moral psychology is the study of how human minds make and are made by human morality. This state-of-the-art volume covers contemporary philosophical and psychological work on moral psychology, as well as notable historical theories and figures in the field of moral psychology, such as Aristotle, Kant, Nietzsche, and the Buddha. The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology's fifty chapters, authored by leading figures in the field, cover foundational topics, such as character, virtue, emotion, moral responsibility, the neuroscience of morality, weakness of will, and the nature of moral judgments and reasons. The volume also canvases emerging work in applied moral psychology, including adaptive preferences, animals, mental illness, poverty, marriage, race, bias, and victim blaming. Collectively, the essays form the definitive survey of contemporary moral psychology.

Responsibility, Character, and the Emotions

Author : Ferdinand David Schoeman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521339513
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book Responsibility, Character, and the Emotions written by Ferdinand David Schoeman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the responsibility individuals have for their actions and characters.

The Moral Psychology of Admiration

Author : Alfred Archer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786607697
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book The Moral Psychology of Admiration written by Alfred Archer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By bringing the work of philosophers and psychologists together this volume is an interdisciplinary, though predominantly philosophical, exploration of an often discussed but rarely researched emotion; admiration. By exploring the moral psychology of admiration the volume examines the nature of this emotion, how it relates to other emotions such as wonder, envy and pride and what role admiration plays in our moral lives. As to the latter, a strong focus is on the potential link between admiration, emulation and the improvement of our characters, as well as of society as a whole.

Moral Character

Author : Christian B. Miller
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191656089
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Moral Character written by Christian B. Miller and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Miller presents a new account of moral character. Most of our friends, colleagues, and even family members are not virtuous people. They do not have virtues such as compassion, honesty, or courage. But at the same time, they are not vicious people either. They do not have vices such as cruelty, dishonesty, or cowardice. Instead most people today have characters which do not qualify as either virtuous or vicious. They have many positive moral features, but also many negative ones too. Our characters are decidedly mixed, and are much more complex than we might have thought. On the one hand, many of us would kill an innocent person in a matter of minutes under pressure from an authority figure as part of a psychology study. Or we would pretend to not see someone collapse from an apparent heart attack across the street. Or we would make a wide circle around someone's dropped papers rather than stop to help pick them up. Yet it is also true that many of us would help another person when we are by ourselves and hear sounds of a non-ambiguous emergency in the next room. Or we would come to the aid of a friend when feeling empathy for her need, and do so for altruistic rather than egoistic reasons. In Moral Character: An Empirical Theory Miller outlines a new picture of our moral character which involves what are called Mixed Character Traits. This picture can help make sense of how most of us are less than virtuous people but also morally better than the vicious.

Francis Hutcheson

Author : John McHugh
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1845405099
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Francis Hutcheson written by John McHugh and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known today mainly as a teacher of Adam Smith (1723–90) and an influence on David Hume (1711–76), Francis Hutcheson (1694–1746) was a first-rate thinker whose work deserves study on its own merit. While his most important contribution to the history of ideas was likely his theory of an innate sense of morality, Hutcheson also wrote on a wide variety of other subjects, including art, psychology, law, politics, economics, metaphysics, and logic. Spanning his entire literary career, this collection brings together selections from Hutcheson's greater and lesser known works, including his youthful "Thoughts" (1725) on Thomas Hobbes' (1588–1679) egoistic theory of laughter.