Why It Is Good to Be Good Ethics, Kohut's Self Psychology, and Modern Society By: John Hanwell Riker Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc. Print ISBN: 9780765707901, 076570790X eText ISBN: 9780765707925, 0765707926 Pages: 194 Copyright year: 2010 Format: PDF Available from $ 23.40 USD SKU 9780765707925R120 In Why It Is Good to be Good, John H. Riker argues that modernity, by undermining traditional religious and metaphysical grounds for moral belief, has left itself no way to explain why it is personally good to be a morally good person. Furthermore, modernity's regnant concept of the self as an independent agent organized around the optimal satisfaction of desires and involved in an intense economic competition with others intensifies the likelihood that modern persons will see morality as a set of limiting constraints that stand in the way of personal advantage and will tend to cheat when they believe there is lit Download ebook: https://ouo.io/1rQJbI
