Process and the authentic life : toward a psychology of value / Jason W. Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Jason W.

Series:

Process thought ; v. 2

Process Thought ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Values--Psychological aspects.

Values.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (699 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2005.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The thesis advanced in this book is that feeling and cognition actualize through a process that originates in older brain formations and develops outward through limbic and cortical fields through the self-concept and private space into (as) the world. An iteration of this transition deposits acts, objects, feelings and utterances. Value is a mode of conceptual feeling that depends on the dominant phase in this transition: from desire through interest to object worth. Among the topics covered are subjective time and change, the epochal nature of objects and their temporal extensibility and the evolution of value from inorganic matter into organic form. The theory of microgenesis informs this work. According to this theory, acts and objects evolve in milliseconds through phases that replicate patterns in forebrain evolution. The progression in the actualization of the mind/brain state is from archaic to recent in brain formation, from unity to diversity, from past to present and from mind to world. An account is given of the diversity of felt experience avoiding the reductionist moves characteristic of biological materialism and the inherent dualism of psychoanalytic and related theories. This book is intended for any reader interested in the psychology of the inner life and philosophy of mind, including philosophers, psychologists, psychiatrists and others with an interest in problems of value and moral feeling.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of contents

Foreword

Author's Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. What is an object?

Chapter 2. Self, Subject and Subjectivity

Chapter 3. Affect and idea

Chapter 4. Value in Mind and Nature

Chapter 5. A World of Value

Chapter 6. From Drive to Desire

Chapter 7. Custom and Evolutionary Naturalism

Chapter 8. Actualization and Causality

Chapter 9. Autonomy and Compassion

Chapter 10. The Grounds of Rational Decision

Chapter 11. What is a Good Act?

Chapter 12. The Ideal

Chapter 13. From Intention to Obligation

Chapter 14. Taste and Manners

Chapter 15. Moral Conflict

Chapter 16. Morality and Suicide

Chapter 17. Luck and the Pursuit of Happiness

Chapter 18. Efficacy and Illusions

Chapter 19. Thought and Action

Chapter 20. Thought and Memory

Chapter 21. The Moral Dimensions of Aesthetic Experience

Chapter 22. The Illusory and the Real

Chapter 23. Wholeness and the Creative Life

Chapter 24. The Nature of Existence

Chapter 25. Reflections on Immortality

References

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783110328202

3110328208

OCLC:

854569146