03869nam 22006375 450 991101597100332120250722130257.03-031-97560-X10.1007/978-3-031-97560-8(CKB)39698536500041(MiAaPQ)EBC32227326(Au-PeEL)EBL32227326(DE-He213)978-3-031-97560-8(EXLCZ)993969853650004120250722d2025 u| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAddressing South Africa's Moral Crisis Society, Moral Identity, and the Psycho-Social Dynamics of Post-Apartheid South Africa /by Nico Vorster1st ed. 2025.Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :Imprint: Springer,2025.1 online resource (303 pages)3-031-97559-6 Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Moral capacity -- Chapter 3. Basic Need pressures -- Chapter 4. Systemic social pressures -- Chapter 5. Distorted motivational dispositions -- Chapter 6. Distorted behavioral responses -- Chapter 7. Moral identity and virtue -- Chapter 8. Alleviating need pressures and creating opportunities -- Chapter 9. Transmitting and protecting values.This book attempts to understand and address the psycho-social dynamics behind South Africa’s moral crisis. It describes South Africa as afflicted by state capture, violence, corruption, and the looting of state infrastructure thirty years after the establishment of democracy. It then provides a holistic, social diagnosis of this problem that integrates the findings of different disciplines into an overall picture of the forces at work in South Africa's collective moral decline. Ultimately, this book engages with the deeper psycho-social phenomena behind South Africa’s moral decline, arguing that the diagnostic question of why this moral decline has taken place must be answered before turning to the normative question of what ought to happen in this situation. Accordingly, this book explores themes regarding the innate moral capacities of the human person, the effects of need pressures and systemic pressures on ethical decision-making, and the phenomena of distorted motivational drives and distorted behavioral responses. It shows how the framing of virtue-centered moral identities might act as buffers against moral disengagement strategies and assist in promoting pro-social behavior. It then specifies the macro-social changes required to create such an ethical-social climate. The book is of interest to social scientists, ethicists, behavioral scientists, educators, theologians, and moral philosophers. In the end, this case study of South Africa shows us more broadly how maintaining public morality and social cohesion is a challenge that most modern societies face. .Political sciencePhilosophyEthicsPolitical ethicsSocial psychologySociologyPolitical PhilosophyMoral Philosophy and Applied EthicsPolitical EthicsSocial PsychologySociologyPolitical sciencePhilosophy.Ethics.Political ethics.Social psychology.Sociology.Political Philosophy.Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics.Political Ethics.Social Psychology.Sociology.320.01Vorster Nico1834532MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911015971003321Addressing South Africa's Moral Crisis4410020UNINA