Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of EthicsThis is Volume VIII of thirty-eight of collection of works on General Psychology. Initially published in 1947, it offers an enquiry into the psychology of ethics and forms a continuation of the author's other work 'Escape from Freedom’ in which he attempted to analyse modern man's escape from himself and his freedom. This book discusses the problem of ethics, of norms and values leading to the realisation of man's self and of his potential. |
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achievement activity Aristotle attitude authoritarian conscience authoritarian ethics authority become behavior cerned character structure character traits characterology child concept conflict cultural pattern defined destructive difficult dominant emotional Escape from Freedom evil existential experience exploitative expression fact fight find first fixed forces freedom Freud fulfillment function God’s guilt feeling happiness human nature humanistic conscience humanistic ethics idea impulse individual influence interest irrational kind lack libido living man’s nature means ment modern moral problem motivation ness neurosis neurotic Nietzsche nonproductive orientations norms one’s oneself parents Peer Gynt person philosophy pleasure potentialities principle productive psychic psychoanalytic psychology qualities rational faith reaction reason relatedness result rooted satisfaction scientific self-interest self-love selfishness sense sexual significant social society specific Spencer Spinoza strivings sufficient Super-Ego superficial temperament theory things thinking thought tion tive truth unconscious understand unselfishness value judgments vidual virtue W. D. Ross