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The education of the ethical consciousness: a study of the growth of the ethical consciousness in the individual

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1924
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MacDonald, John
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The growth of the ethical consciousness in the individual has not been adequately studied by the psychologists. The question has indeed attracted the attention of several writers but the treatment of it has been on the whole unsatisfactory. For this there are several reasons. In some cases the problem has been examined in a more or less incidental way in connection with the discussion of some special theory or theories. The problem is too comprehensive, however, to admit of being adequately treated in this way. Where it has been more directly attacked, two things have detracted from the value of the discussion. Either the writer has failed to preface his genetic account with an analysis of the developed ethical consciousness or, where such an analysis has been offered, the view adopted of that consciousness has been too narrow to enable one to see the genetic problems in their true focus. In the former case, where no analysis is given, the writer either assumes that the ethical consciousness is too familiar a fact to require elaborate analysis; or he considers that this analysis has been sufficiently carried out by the philosophers who have made Ethics their special province. The history of ethical theory from Socrates onwards, is a standing refutation of the notion that we can safely dispense with the analysis in question. It can be said, on the contrary, that there is no question of general philosophic interest that makes a severer demand on the resources of the psychologist.
 
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