The moral psychology of internal conflict : value, meaning, and the enactive mind / Ralph D. Ellis (Clark Atlanta University).

Author
Ellis, Ralph D. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
  • ©2018
Description
x, 236 pages ; 24 cm

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    Annotation Will interest moral and political psychologists, philosophers, and social scientists concerned with inner emotional conflicts driving ethical thinking beyond mere emotivism, toward moral realism. It combines 'basic emotion' theories (e.g. Panksepp) with hermeneutic depth - psychology of the conflict between a basic truth - seeking exploratory drive and equally powerful confabulatory motivations.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-229) and index.
    Contents
    • Part I. LOVE OF TRUTH AND "MORAL SENTIMENTS"
    • 1. The paradox of the charitable terrorist
    • 2. Can we have naturalism without the naturalistic fallacy?
    • 3. Love of truth and "vital lies": basic conflicting emotions in moral and political psychology
    • 4. Moral realism, hermeneutics, and enactive epistemology: the truth "resists us"
    • Part II. TRUTH-SEEKING AND THE HERMENEUTIC CIRCLE
    • 5. "Attention must be paid!" hermeneutics and the demand for universalization
    • 6. The coherence of moral worldviews: beyond the privileging of nihilism
    • 7. Kantian abstractions and the embarrassment of reason: the need for hermeneutics
    • 8. The limits of hedonism: paradoxes of "expanded egoism"
    • 9. The hermeneutic process in action: fallibilism and the role of emotion in moral and political psychology.
    ISBN
    • 9781107189959 ((hardcover))
    • 1107189950 ((hardcover))
    • 9781108713764 ((paperback))
    • 1108713769 ((paperback))
    OCLC
    996403486
    Other standard number
    • 14724022
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