Psychology and Ethical Development (Routledge Revivals)

R.S. Peters

Preface; Part One: Psychological Theories and Rational Psychology 1. Observationalism in Psychology 2. Behaviourism 3. Freud’s Theory 4. Motivation, Emotion and The Conceptual Schemes of Common Sense 5. The Development of Reason 6. Reason and Passion 7. The Education of the Emotions 8. C. A. Mace’s Contribution to the Philosophy of Mind 9. The Psychologist and the Teacher 10. Survival, the Soul or Personal Relationships? Reviews of B. F. skinner’s Beyond Freedom and Dignity and of Carl R. Roger’s Freedom to Learn: A View of What Education Might Become Part Two: Ethical Development 11. Freud’s theory of Moral Development in Relation to that of Piaget 12. Moral Education and the Psychology of Character 13. Reason and Habit: the Paradox of Moral Education 14. Concrete Principles and the Rational Passions 15. Moral Development: a Plea for Pluralism 16. Freedom and the Development of the Free Man 17. Moral Development and Moral Learning Part Three: Education and Human Understanding 18. Personal Understanding and Personal Relationships 19. Subjectivity and Standards 20. Michael Oakeshott’s Philosophy of Education Part Four: Biographical Background 21. R. S. Peters: A Commentary 22. A Boy’s View of George Orwell 23. I Was Twenty Then; Index