Process and the Authentic Life: Toward a Psychology of Value

Jason W. Brown

Published by De Gruyter 2005

Process and the Authentic Life

Toward a Psychology of Value

Jason W. Brown

Volume 2 in the series Process Thought

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110328202

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About this book

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.

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

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Pages
- Main content: 699
Illustrations
- Other: Zahlr. Abb.
Keywords: Philosophie; Psychologie

eBook

Published: May 2, 2013
ISBN: 9783110328202

Hardcover

Published: May 15, 2005
ISBN: 9783110327946