Individualism And Moral Character

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Individualism And Moral Character

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Author : Jeff Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05

Individualism And Moral Character written by Jeff Mitchell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Psychology categories.

There are hundreds of different systems of psychotherapy today, ranging from the traditional "talking cure" to symbolic "re-birthing" and primal scream. The landscape is littered with serious social science, pop psychology, esoteric doctrine, and pure charlatanism. One of the obvious dangers of so many choices is that the best therapies may be lost in a profusion of competing schools and traditions.To some extent, this has been the fate of the school of psychotherapy developed by Karen Horney. Since her death in 1952, Horney's work has received insufficient attention, in part because criticism of Freud's thought may have tainted attitudes toward psychotherapy in general. Jeff Mitchell argues that Karen Horney's school of psychoanalysis constitutes a highly innovative moral psychology. He interprets her approach to the treatment of personality or character disorders as a form of moral education.Drawing on research in the social sciences, particularly anthropology, sociology, and psychology, Mitchell argues that Horney's reworking of Freud's thinking preserves and builds upon what was truly insightful in his work, and eliminates the most dubious elements. Her thinking acknowledges that today individuals achieve their own identities rather than accepting what was ascribed to them by birth. This makes Karen Horney's theories especially relevant, both for psychotherapy as well as to thought about human affairs in general.

Personal Destinies

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Author : David L. Norton
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1976

Personal Destinies written by David L. Norton and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Philosophy categories.

What is the meaning of life? Modern professional philosophy has largely renounced the attempt to answer this question and has restricted itself to the pursuit of more esoteric truths. Not so David Norton. Following in the footsteps of Plato and Aristotle, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, Jung and Maslow, he sets forth a distinctive vision of the individual's search for his place in the scheme of things. Norton's theory of individualism is rooted in the eudaimonistic ethics of the Creeks, who viewed each person as innately possessing a unique potential it was his destiny to fulfill. Very much the same idea resurfaced in modern times with the British idealists and Continental existentialists. The author reviews these antecedents, showing how his theory differs from those of his predecessors. After a fascinating chapter on "The Stages of Life," Norton shows how the mature consciousness of one's destiny leads to direct, intimate knowledge of other persons, and how this in turn provides the basis for social morality. The conception of justice in which this theory culminates, rooted as it is in essential human differences, provides a challenging alternative to the much-discussed theories of Rawls and Nozick.

The Individual And His Relation To Society As Reflected In British Ethics

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Author : James Hayden Tufts
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898

The Individual And His Relation To Society As Reflected In British Ethics written by James Hayden Tufts and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Ethics categories.

The Moral Consequences Of Individualism

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Author : Forrest Oran Wiggins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1938

The Moral Consequences Of Individualism written by Forrest Oran Wiggins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1938 with categories.

The Individual And His Relation To Society As Reflected In British Ethics The Individual In Social And Economic Relations By J H Tufts

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Author : James Hayden Tufts
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1904

The Individual And His Relation To Society As Reflected In British Ethics The Individual In Social And Economic Relations By J H Tufts written by James Hayden Tufts and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1904 with Ethics categories.

Moral Tradition And Individuality

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Author : John Kekes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989

Moral Tradition And Individuality written by John Kekes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Philosophy categories.

In this study, John Kekes develops the view that good lives depend on maintaining a balance between one's moral tradition and individuality. Our moral tradition provides the forms of good lives and the permissible ways of trying to achieve them. But to do so, the author argues, we must grow in self-knowledge and self-control to make our characters suitable for realizing our aspirations. In addressing general readers as well as scholars, Kekes makes these philosophical views concrete by drawing on a rich variety of literary sources, including, among others, the works of Sophocles, Henry James, Tolstoy, and Edith Wharton. The first half of the work concentrates on social morality, establishing the conditions all good lives must meet. The second discusses personal morality, the sphere of individuality. Its development enables us to discover what is important to us and how we can fit our personal aspirations into the forms of life our moral tradition provides. Kekes's argument derives its inspiration from Aristotle's objectivism, Hume's emphasis on custom and feeling, and Mill's concentration on individuals and their experiments in living. This book is a nontechnical yet closely reasoned attempt to provide a contemporary answer to the age-old question of how to live well.

For The Greater Good Of All

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Author : D. Forsyth
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-01-03

For The Greater Good Of All written by D. Forsyth and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-03 with Business & Economics categories.

This volume draws on disciplines as different as Psychology, Anthropology, History and Biology to explain when and why individuals act to promote their own self-interest and when they sacrifice their own outcomes so that others can benefit.

Person Self And Moral Demands

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Author : Jeroen Jansz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991

Person Self And Moral Demands written by Jeroen Jansz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Collectivism categories.

The Psychology Of Individualism

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Author : Alan S. Waterman
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1984

The Psychology Of Individualism written by Alan S. Waterman and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Social Science categories.

Ethical Autonomy

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Author : Lucas Swaine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020

Ethical Autonomy written by Lucas Swaine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Autonomy (Philosophy) categories.

"Autonomy is a towering concept in human affairs. Its "evocative force" pulses through the discourse of classical antiquity, rising in present times and proliferating across the globe. Vital to social-scientific and philosophical understanding, autonomy stands prominently in the pantheon of democratic values, celebrated together with the basic liberties, justice, equality, toleration, and the rule of law. Autonomy is a mainstay of individual freedom and the lifeblood of democratic conceptions of citizenship. Many believe that personal autonomy promotes individuality and authenticity, empowering citizens and spurring positive social change. Various scholars occupy themselves with the question of how to facilitate or to increase personal autonomy in democratic polities. Some ask what liberal government can do to advance personal autonomy, through schooling and other educational measures, in order to enhance people's pursuits or to energize political participation. Others go so far as to propose that personal autonomy is a basic human right, one generating moral and legal entitlements around the world. Numerous advocates have assumed that personal autonomy fits snugly with other important moral and political values. Some presuppose a natural compatibility between personal autonomy and superior ethical agency, reckoning that the more autonomous someone is, the better morally that person will be. Others intimate, or declare outright, that it is decidedly deficient not to be autonomous at the personal level. These views are fabricated from the positive qualities of autonomy, with proponents assuming, even defining, autonomous people as basically moral actors.The rosy notions and happy assumptions about autonomy are dangerous mistakes. Not only do many personally autonomous individuals take form as very bad actors: numerous of them are terrible miscreants who commit despicable, even monstrous acts. Some autonomous individuals torture, rape, and murder people they encounter. Others are deeply wicked and depraved in other ways. Personally autonomous individuals come in many dreadful varieties, from degenerate malefactors to perpetrators of horrific evil. The jumble includes those who unburden themselves of emotional and volitional constraints, preparing themselves for shocking acts. And the mix features individuals who labor thirstily to generate options to do evil, or who mull over depraved choices that appear within their perimeters. These are people whose autonomy produces a number of difficult philosophical and practical conundrums for moral and political theory, for liberalism, and for citizenship in democratic political orders. Many personally autonomous individuals are upstanding citizens and fine people, but there are legion who are not. Theorists of personal autonomy have done well to consider ways in which autonomous acts can be immoral, but virtually none has faced up to the reality that the category of personally autonomous agents includes highly unethical individuals, people who create a myriad of thoroughgoing, deeply challenging problems that destabilize personal autonomy's fit with crucial moral and political values.""--