The essays in this collection are concerned with the psychology of moral agency. They focus on moral feelings and moral motivation, and seek to understand the operations and origins of these phenomena as rooted in the natural desires and emotions of human beings. An important feature of the essays, and one that distinguishes the book from most philosophical work in moral psychology, is the attention to the writings of Freud. An underlying theme of the volume is a critique of influential, rationalist accounts of moral agency.
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The essays in this collection are concerned with the psychology of moral agency. An important feature that distinguishes them from most philosophical work in this field is the attention to the writings of Freud. An underlying theme is a critique of influential, rationalist accounts of moral agency.
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Is morality a system of rules to live by? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
temporally neutral perspective, mere hypothetical imperatives, stricter ethical sense, severe dejection, prudential motivation, externalist reading, favored rendering, motivational weight, honoring covenants, human exceptionalism, acquired wit, dejected man, prudential action, nonrational desire, motivational content, reparative acts, reform theorist, mature empathy, intuitionist conception, authority guilt, phylogenetic explanation, material criterion, moral prohibitions, prudential judgments, psychological thesis Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Clarendon Press, Cambridge University Press, Principle of Sufficient Reason, Critique of Practical Reason, Herbert Morris, Oxford University Press, John Rawls, Basic Books, Cultural Study, Henry Sidgwick, Philosophical Review, Richard Wollheim, University of Chicago Press, Mark Twain, Melanie Klein, Molly Malloy, New Introductory Lectures, University of California Press New!
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temporally neutral perspective, mere hypothetical imperatives, stricter ethical sense, severe dejection, prudential motivation, externalist reading, favored rendering, motivational weight, honoring covenants, human exceptionalism, acquired wit, dejected man, prudential action, nonrational desire, motivational content, reparative acts, reform theorist, mature empathy, intuitionist conception, authority guilt, phylogenetic explanation, material criterion, moral prohibitions, prudential judgments, psychological thesis Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Clarendon Press, Cambridge University Press, Principle of Sufficient Reason, Critique of Practical Reason, Herbert Morris, Oxford University Press, John Rawls, Basic Books, Cultural Study, Henry Sidgwick, Philosophical Review, Richard Wollheim, University of Chicago Press, Mark Twain, Melanie Klein, Molly Malloy, New Introductory Lectures, University of California Press New!
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- Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud on 23 pages
- The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud on 13 pages
- Kant: Critique of Practical Reason (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Immanuel Kant on 4 pages
- Shame & Guilt by Piers Gerhart on 4 pages
- Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Norton Library) by Sigmund Freud on 4 pages
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- Self to Self: Selected Essays by J. David Velleman on 4 pages
- Remorse & Reparation (Forensic Focus , No 7) by Cox on page 128, page 202, and Back Matter
- Ethics and Narrative in the English Novel, 1880-1914 by Jil Larson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory (Blackwell Philosophy Guides) by Hugh Lafollette on page 162
- Moral Knowledge by Ellen Frankel Paul on page 84
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