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Author: John Hanwell Riker
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Imprint: State University of New York Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.227kg
ISBN: 9780791434253
ISBN 10: 0791434257
Pages: 254
Publication Date: 10 July 1997
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Awaiting stock
Reviews
[What I like most is] its effort to show the possibility of the formation of ethical subjectivity through personal dialogue with an individual's unconscious. The topic is particularly significant in this society. The extent to which a normative ethic can be derived from psychological structures and experiences is a subject of important debate. The book's major insight is focused by its account of maturity as a field of criteria for social values. It addresses major ethical issues and is written out of the author's personal and intellectual discoveries. Its tone and affection give intensity to its philosophical and intellectual content. Its originality is found in the development of a series of claims about mature agency that is controversial and significant to both philosophers and psychologists. -- Charles E. Scott, Penn State University
"""[What I like most is] its effort to show the possibility of the formation of ethical subjectivity through personal dialogue with an individual's unconscious. The topic is particularly significant in this society. The extent to which a normative ethic can be derived from psychological structures and experiences is a subject of important debate. ""The book's major insight is focused by its account of maturity as a field of criteria for social values. It addresses major ethical issues and is written out of the author's personal and intellectual discoveries. Its tone and affection give intensity to its philosophical and intellectual content. Its originality is found in the development of a series of claims about mature agency that is controversial and significant to both philosophers and psychologists."" — Charles E. Scott, Penn State University"
[What I like most is] its effort to show the possibility of the formation of ethical subjectivity through personal dialogue with an individual s unconscious. The topic is particularly significant in this society. The extent to which a normative ethic can be derived from psychological structures and experiences is a subject of important debate. The book s major insight is focused by its account of maturity as a field of criteria for social values. It addresses major ethical issues and is written out of the author s personal and intellectual discoveries. Its tone and affection give intensity to its philosophical and intellectual content. Its originality is found in the development of a series of claims about mature agency that is controversial and significant to both philosophers and psychologists. Charles E. Scott, Penn State University
Author Information
John Hanwell Riker is Professor of Philosophy at Colorado College. He is the author of Human Excellence and an Ecological Conception of the Psyche, also published by SUNY Press, and The Art of Ethical Thinking.
