caa a22 4500 475816773 CHVBK 20180406123812.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1004614532165 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1004614532165 Reaching for Virtue, Stumbling on Sin: Concepts of Good and Evil in a Postmodern Era [Elektronische Daten] [Ester Buchholz, Joshua Mandel] Although our culture struggles to understand the origins and nature of good and evil behavior, the disciplines of psychology and psychoanalysis contribute to the discourse primarily indirectly. By examining early Judaism and Christianity, the authors seek to clarify the foundation of contemporary understanding of good and evil in Western society. Looking through the multiple filters of religion, philosophy, psychoanalysis and psychology, groundwork is laid for definitions of good and evil, which can be understood subjectively and measured objectively. As we investigate morality, will, and choice in the varied "ologies” and across time, we note how much emotion and volition are secondary in modern thinking about evil. Moreover, the place of will as a positive force in development is largely ignored, except by prescient thinkers like Otto Rank. To grasp evil's nature we need to integrate past with present, contrast conscious to unconscious desires, and allow that being bad is not necessarily unnatural or pathological, but can be a transitional stage in the growth of one's conscience. Blanton-Peale Institute, 2000 evil nationallicence will nationallicence goodness nationallicence badness as transitional stage nationallicence Buchholz Ester Applied Psychology Department at New York University, USA aut Mandel Joshua Child and School Psychology, NYU, New York aut Journal of Religion and Health Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 39/2(2000-06-01), 123-142 0022-4197 39:2<123 2000 39 10943 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004614532165 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004614532165 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Buchholz Ester Applied Psychology Department at New York University, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mandel Joshua Child and School Psychology, NYU, New York aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Religion and Health Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 39/2(2000-06-01), 123-142 0022-4197 39:2<123 2000 39 10943 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer