Brown Process and the Authentic Life

Toward a Psychology of Value
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-032820-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 2, 699 Seiten

Reihe: Process ThoughtISSN

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Jason W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Table of contents;7
2;Foreword;15
3;Author’s Preface;21
4;Introduction;23
5;Chapter 1. What is an object?;47
6;Chapter 2. Self, Subject and Subjectivity;73
7;Chapter 3. Affect and idea;101
8;Chapter 4. Value in Mind and Nature;127
9;Chapter 5. A World of Value;147
10;Chapter 6. From Drive to Desire;173
11;Chapter 7. Custom and EvolutionaryNaturalism;195
12;Chapter 8. Actualization and Causality;219
13;Chapter 9. Autonomy and Compassion;243
14;Chapter 10. The Grounds of RationalDecision;275
15;Chapter 11. What is a Good Act?;301
16;Chapter 12. The Ideal;335
17;Chapter 13. From Intention to Obligation;359
18;Chapter 14. Taste and Manners;383
19;Chapter 15. Moral Conflict;407
20;Chapter 16. Morality and Suicide;431
21;Chapter 17. Luck and the Pursuit ofHappiness;457
22;Chapter 18. Efficacy and Illusions;485
23;Chapter 19. Thought and Action;509
24;Chapter 20. Thought and Memory;531
25;Chapter 21. The Moral Dimensions ofAesthetic Experience;553
26;Chapter 22. The Illusory and the Real;579
27;Chapter 23. Wholeness and the CreativeLife;603
28;Chapter 24. The Nature of Existence;635
29;Chapter 25. Reflections on Immortality;663
30;References;691