The Moral Self addresses the question of how morality enters into our lives. Pauline Chazan draws upon psychology, moral philosophy and literary interpretation to rebut the view that morality's role is to limit desire and control self-love. Perserving the ancients' connection between what is good for the self and what is morally good, Chazan argues that a certain kind of care for the self is central to moral agency. Her intriguing argument begins with a critical examination of the views of Hume, Rousseau and Hegel. The constructive part of the book takes a more unusual turn by synthesising the work on the analyst Heinz Kohut and Aristotle into Chazan's own positive account, which is then illustrated by the use of Russian literature.
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Pauline Chazan teaches philosophy at LaTrobe University, Australia.
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The history of moral philosophy reveals that philosophers have responded differently to the question of whether the constitution of the self and its valuing of itself as an ethical being is generated individually, socially, culturally or psycho-socially. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
determinate objective content, boastful guest, external selfobjects, own moral understanding, epistemic control, sophisticated utilitarian, many moral theories, ethical nobility, virtuous pride, moral worries, good moral agent, selfobject function, selfobject relationship, fragmenting self, modern moral theories, selfobject transferences, psychic strength, moral personhood, reflective evaluation, moral self, critical distancing, moral anguish, self psychology, self function, moral impossibility Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The history of moral philosophy reveals that philosophers have responded differently to the question of whether the constitution of the self and its valuing of itself as an ethical being is generated individually, socially, culturally or psycho-socially. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
determinate objective content, boastful guest, external selfobjects, own moral understanding, epistemic control, sophisticated utilitarian, many moral theories, ethical nobility, virtuous pride, moral worries, good moral agent, selfobject function, selfobject relationship, fragmenting self, modern moral theories, selfobject transferences, psychic strength, moral personhood, reflective evaluation, moral self, critical distancing, moral anguish, self psychology, self function, moral impossibility Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Crime and Punishment (Dodo Press) by Fyodor Dostoevsky on 5 pages
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- Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) by Leo Tolstoy on page 135, page 136, and Back Matter
- Anna Karenina (Norton Critical Editions) by L.N. Tolstoy on page 135, page 136, and Back Matter
- A Treatise of Human Nature (Oxford Philosophical Texts) by David Hume in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Hume on Morality (Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks) by James Baillie in Back Matter
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