Impartialist Ethics and Psychic Disintegration: A Talking Cure

<p>This dissertation deals with integrity understood as a state of the psyche. Its primary interlocutor is Professor Bernard Williams, and its point of departure is my interpretation of his Objection from Integrity to impartialist moral theories. Against Williams, I hope to show that the active adherent of impartialist ethical systems (e.g., act utilitarianism) may retain both moral integrity and integrity. In demonstrating this, I make use of a variant of Roy Schafer’s action language approach to psychoanalysis, and what I call practical aestheticism.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy (PhD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Year dc:date.available

2015

Author dc:creator

• Briggs, Roman Nakia

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Lee, Richard

Contributors dc:contributor

• Funkhouser, Eric M.
• Minar, Edward H.

• Philosophy
• religion and theology
• Psychology
• Commitment
• Integrity
• Practical identity
• Self
• Utilitarianism
• Value
• Clinical Psychology
• Ethics and Political Philosophy

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https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/1320

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.uark.edu:etd-2319