Self to Self: Selected Essays

1. Introduction 2. A brief introduction to Kantian ethics 3. The genesis of shame 4. Love as moral emotion 5. The voice of conscience 6. A rational superego 7. Don't worry, feel guilty 8. Self to self 9. The self as narrator 10. From self psychology to moral philosophy 11. The centered self 12. Willing the law 13. Motivation by ideal 14. Identification and identity.

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