Process and the Authentic Life (eBook)

Toward a Psychology of Value

Jason W. Brown (Autor)

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2005
699 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-032820-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Inhalt

Table of contents 7
Foreword 15
Author’s Preface 21
Introduction 23
Chapter 1. What is an object? 47
Chapter 2. Self, Subject and Subjectivity 73
Chapter 3. Affect and idea 101
Chapter 4. Value in Mind and Nature 127
Chapter 5. A World of Value 147
Chapter 6. From Drive to Desire 173
Chapter 7. Custom and EvolutionaryNaturalism 195
Chapter 8. Actualization and Causality 219
Chapter 9. Autonomy and Compassion 243
Chapter 10. The Grounds of RationalDecision 275
Chapter 11. What is a Good Act? 301
Chapter 12. The Ideal 335
Chapter 13. From Intention to Obligation 359
Chapter 14. Taste and Manners 383
Chapter 15. Moral Conflict 407
Chapter 16. Morality and Suicide 431
Chapter 17. Luck and the Pursuit ofHappiness 457
Chapter 18. Efficacy and Illusions 485
Chapter 19. Thought and Action 509
Chapter 20. Thought and Memory 531
Chapter 21. The Moral Dimensions ofAesthetic Experience 553
Chapter 22. The Illusory and the Real 579
Chapter 23. Wholeness and the CreativeLife 603
Chapter 24. The Nature of Existence 635
Chapter 25. Reflections on Immortality 663
References 691

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.5.2013
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: Process Thought
• Reihe/Serie: Process Thought
• Zusatzinfo: Zahlr. Abb.
• Verlagsort: Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
• Schlagworte: Philosophie • Psychologie
• ISBN-10: 3-11-032820-8 / 3110328208
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-032820-2 / 9783110328202