Why it is good to be good : ethics, Kohut's self psychology, and modern society / John H. Riker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riker, John H., 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Self psychology.

Psychology and philosophy.

Kohut, Heinz.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Jason Aronson, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Why It Is Good to be Good, John H. Riker shows how modernity's reigning concept of the self undermines moral life and lays the basis for the epidemic of cheating that is devastating social and economic institutions. He argues that by accepting Kohut's brilliant and original psychoanalytic concept of the self, modernity can have a naturalist account for showing why it is personally good to be a morally good person.

Contents:

The moral problem of modernity

Kohut's theory of the self

Kohut and the philosophic tradition

A new metapsychology : Freud, Aristotle, Heidegger, and Kohut

Why it is good to be good

A self psychological vision of ethical life

Self psychology and modernity : actualizing self in the age of desire

Social transformations.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

979-82-16-31905-4

1-283-22456-9

9786613224569

0-7657-0792-6

OCLC:

745866990