| Popis: |
Modern moral thought, exemplified in the work of Bernard Williams, finds a fundamental conflict between love and morality. Drawing on material from attachment-oriented psychoanalytic theories, this chapter argues that “the other” is developmentally fundamental for the infant, connected with primitive forms of moral emotion (some strongly negative), whose resolution partly constitutes a self, setting out on a path to a potentially creative form of moral agency. Instead of intractable conflict between love and morality, we find a complex dynamic account of their mutual dependence. There is no gap between other and self; the right sort of independence is the moral achievement. |
