The Great Divorce: Ethics and Identity |
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Authors: | David Michael Goodman Adriana Marcelli |
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Institution: | (1) Cambridge Hospital/Harvard Medical School, 1493 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA;(2) Regis College, 235 Wellesley Street, Weston, MA 02493, USA |
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Abstract: | Significant epistemological shifts took place during the modern period that led to the exclusion of ethical constructs of
the human self. Subsequently, ethics or morality was systematically divorced from reason and human identity. This has left
modern psychologies with impoverished languages for understanding morality and ethics, especially as it relates to human identity.
Some of these changes and their subsequent effects are chronicled. Toward this end, three unique influences of the modern
era are surveyed. First, it is argued that the nature of reasoning and rationality underwent a significant shift in definition
and emphasis, becoming autonomous and secular. Second, it is suggested that the scope of inquiry was restricted to the natural
order, creating an immanentization of knowledge. Lastly, it is argued that modernity ushered in a promotion of and preoccupation
with the individual subject. The context of each influence are explored, along with a subsection in each describing how the
effects of these impacted the growing divorce between ethics and human identity. |
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