Process and the Authentic Life Toward a Psychology of Value
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Jason W. Brown
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Process and the Authentic Life Toward a Psychology of Value
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
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9783110328202
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Process ThoughtISSN
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1
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CHF 176.90
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Sonstiges
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English
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699
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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.
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
