Process and the Authentic Life : : Toward a Psychology of Value / / Jason W. Brown.

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,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]
©2005
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Process Thought , 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (699 p.) :; Zahlr. Abb.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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