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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452854903321

Autore

Brown Jason W

Titolo

Process and the authentic life [[electronic resource] ] : toward a psychology of value / / Jason W. Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frankfurt, : Ontos Verlag, 2005

ISBN

3-11-032820-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (699 p.)

Collana

Process Thought ; ; 2

Process thought ; ; v. 2

Soggetti

Values - Psychological aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Author's Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. What is an object? -- Chapter 2. Self, Subject and Subjectivity -- Chapter 3. Affect and idea -- Chapter 4. Value in Mind and Nature -- Chapter 5. A World of Value -- Chapter 6. From Drive to Desire -- Chapter 7. Custom and Evolutionary Naturalism -- Chapter 8. Actualization and Causality -- Chapter 9. Autonomy and Compassion -- Chapter 10. The Grounds of Rational Decision -- Chapter 11. What is a Good Act? -- Chapter 12. The Ideal -- Chapter 13. From Intention to Obligation -- Chapter 14. Taste and Manners -- Chapter 15. Moral Conflict -- Chapter 16. Morality and Suicide -- Chapter 17. Luck and the Pursuit of Happiness -- Chapter 18. Efficacy and Illusions -- Chapter 19. Thought and Action -- Chapter 20. Thought and Memory -- Chapter 21. The Moral Dimensions of Aesthetic Experience -- Chapter 22. The Illusory and the Real -- Chapter 23. Wholeness and the Creative Life -- Chapter 24. The Nature of Existence -- Chapter 25. Reflections on Immortality -- References