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The Sources of Moral Agency: Essays in Moral Psychology and Freudian Theory

By John Deigh

Book information

Year
1996
ISBN
9780521554183, 9780511624636, 0521556228, 0521554187, 0511624638, 9780521556224
LCC
BF47 .D45 1996
Open Library ID
OL810440M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5231041 bytes)
Pages
274\272
Topic
Psychology
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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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