Rethinking Goodness

By Lise Wallach and Michael A. Wallach

Book Overview

Arguing that a psychological basis for ethics can be found in human motivation, Rethinking Goodness proposes a naturalistic ethics that transcends the conflict between liberalism and authoritarianism-the conflict between freedom at the price of narcissism and morality at the price of coercion. The authors offer a third option, an ethic broader than liberalism's pursuit of the personal, that avoids jeopardizing, as do authoritarian positions, the centrality of individual autonomy.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791402991
• ISBN13: 9780791402993
• Release Date: July 1990
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher