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100 1 $aRiker, John H.
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520 $aIn Why It Is Good to be Good, John H. Riker argues that modernity, by undermining traditional religious and metaphysical grounds for moral belief, has left itself no way to explain why it is personally good to be a morally good person. Furthermore, modernity's regnant concept of the self as an independent agent organized around the optimal satisfaction of desires and involved in an intense economic competition with others intensifies the likelihood that modern persons will see morality as a set of limiting constraints that stand in the way of personal advantage and will tend to cheat when they.
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505 0 $aThe moral problem of modernity -- Kohut's theory of the self -- Kohut and the philosophic tradition -- A new metapsychology : Freud, Aristotle, Heidegger, and Kohut -- Why it is good to be good -- A self psychological vision of ethical life -- Self psychology and modernity : actualizing self in the age of desire -- Social transformations.
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