Deutsche Gesellschaft
für phänomenologische Forschung

Buch | Kapitel

205047

Psychology and morality

an interpretive-pragmatic view

Svend Brinkmann

pp. 1-14

Abstrakt

This book is about psychology's grounding in morality – or, in other words, about the ethical foundations and implications of psychology. It presents the argument that psychological phenomena are inherently moral phenomena, and that psychology, as an array of investigative and interventionist practices, is, and ought to be, a moral science. Throughout the book, I aim to present a unified view of psychology and morality, not as two disjointed fields that are accidentally brought together, but as deeply and inherently related in many different ways. Often, however, the relations between psychology and morality are not recognized by psychologists themselves and this, I argue, is detrimental to the discipline, but also to the society that is affected by the workings of psychology in many different ways. Part I begins with a number of critical investigations into how modern psychology has shaped and in some ways distorted our views of morality and ourselves, and part II advances more positive and prescriptive views about how properly to conceive of morality and its relation to psychology.

Publication details

Published in:

Brinkmann Svend (2011) Psychology as a moral science: perspectives on normativity. Dordrecht, Springer.

Seiten: 1-14

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7067-1_1

Referenz:

Brinkmann Svend (2011) Psychology and morality: an interpretive-pragmatic view, In: Psychology as a moral science, Dordrecht, Springer, 1–14.