The Sources of Moral Agency: Essays in Moral Psychology and Freudian TheoryCambridge University Press, 1996 M07 13 - 254 pages 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. |
Contents
Morality and personal relations | 1 |
Some doubts | 18 |
Love guilt and the sense of justice | 39 |
Remarks on some difficulties in Freuds theory of moral development | 65 |
Changes and implications | 94 |
Freud naturalism and modern moral philosophy | 113 |
Reason and motivation | 133 |
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