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Pavadinimas: CARING ABOUT MORALITY: PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES IN MORAL PSYCHOLOGY
Autoriai: THOMAS E. WREN
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ISBN: 0-415-06259-4
Brūkšninis kodas: 4036712
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     Thomas Wren is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University of Chicago. This is a book about the motivational dimension of conscience. The classical view of this dimension is that truly moral men and women want to do what is right and good for its own sake. However, that "internalist" view has been eclipsed in recent psychologies of morality, in favor of the view that people act morally for the same intrinsic rewards and punishments that supposedly motivate every other sort of human action. Wren examines the philosophical underpinnings of these theories, in order to show that it is possible to develop a social and behavioral science compatible with and even based upon the conviction that morality is intrinsically motivating.

Preface ix
1 MORAL MOTIVES AND MORAL MOTIVATION 1
Moral philosophy and moral psychology
Moral motivation: its summary and constitutive conceptions
Moral motives: internalist and externalist perspectives
The moral domain: contents and core features
Conclusion
2 THE PRINCIPLE OF UNIVERSAL HETERONOMY 23
Socialization and heteronomy
The self-defeating nature of externalist moral psychology
Conclusion
3 EXTERNALIST MORAL PSYCHOLOGIES:
SOCIALIZATION THEORIES 40
Noncognitive theories: reinforcement without internal representations
Theories of conflict resolution
Modeling and vicarious reinforcement
Self-control in delay of gratification
Conclusion
4 INTERNALIST MORAL PSYCHOLOGIES:
INTERNALIZATION THEORIES 75
Self-regulation, moral cognition, and internalization
The reinforcement picture of internalization
The affect-conditioning picture of internalization
The psychoanalytic picture of internalization
Conclusion
5 INTERNALIST MORAL PSYCHOLOGIES:
DEVELOPMENTAL THEORIES 109
The cognitive developmental view
Piaget`s moral psychology
Kohlberg`s moral psychology
Conclusion
6 SOME PHILOSOPHICAL SPECULATIONS 155
Autonomy reconsidered
Motivation and self-interpretation

Notes 167
References 177
Index 190