The harmony of the soul : mental health and moral virtue reconsidered
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
The harmony of the soul : mental health and moral virtue reconsidered
（SUNY series in the philosophy of psychology）
State University of New York Press, c1993
- : pbk
Available at / 3 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Bibliography: p. [179]-187
Includes index
Series editor: Michael Washburn
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Harmony of the Soul creates a naturalistic grounding for ethics and a moral grounding for psychotherapy. It is an original and startling synthesis of the ideas of mental health and moral virtue based on neglected affinities between classical Greek ethics, contemporary virtue ethics, sociobiology, and the basic presuppositions of psychotherapy. A central thesis of the book is that we can assume "the worst" about what science tells us about the human animal without having to sacrifice any of the things that are of most importance to ethics: virtue and the good life, harmony of the soul, freedom, conscience, and moral knowledge.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. THE BODY 1. Health: A Tattered Absolute
II. THE SOUL 2. Behavior
The General Meaning of Mental Health
The Empirical Reality of Mental Health
A Limited Specification of Mental Health
Love and Work
Health Values and the Status Quo
3. Motivation
Pleasure, Function, Behavior
The Disruption of the Harmony and the Transformation of Pleasures
The Origin of Mental Illness
The Intensity of Anxiety
The Modality of Anxiety
The Unconscious as Self-Deception
Neurotic Pleasure
III. THE GOOD 4. The Paradox of Human Nature
The Duplicity of Human Nature
The Origin of Anxiety and Self-Negation
Health and Nature Reconsidered
5. Human Nature/Human Goodness
The Fixed Side of Human Nature
The Medical and the Moral
The Possibility of Happiness
6. Virtue and Morality
The Spontaneity of Goodness in Aristotle
Habit and Natural Pleasure
7. Consequences
Freedom
Conscience
The Problem of Ethical Knowledge
Notes
Bibliography
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"