Ethical Experience: A Phenomenology

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Ethical Experience provides a unique phenomenological dialogue between psychology and philosophy. This novel approach focuses on lived experiences that belong to daily practical life, such self-identity and ethical decision-making. This practical focus enables the reader to explore how ethics relates to psychology and how the ethical agent determines herself within her surrounding community and world. Using Husserl's ethics the authors present a phenomenological approach moral psychology that offers an alternative to cognitive and neuroscientific theories. This is a practical and theoretically rigorous textbook that will be of use to those researching and studying ethics, morality, psychology and religion.

Susi Ferrarello is Lecturer in Philosophy at California State University, USA. Nicolle Zapien is Dean of the School of Professional Psychology and Health at the California Institute for Integral Studies, USA.

In this book, Susi Ferrarello and Nicolle Zapien provide a much-needed interaction between theory and practice, and between method and description-both with respect to Husserl studies and to phenomenological psychology more broadly. The book's clarity and concreteness will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students in psychology, leadership, business, and philosophy. Focused primarily on what it means to perceive reality, what it means to be intimate, and what it means to live a temporal life, this work will inspire and direct students to phenomenology as to a meaningful resource for better communication and introspection. -- Peter Costello, Professor of Philosophy, Providence College, USA An exciting interdisciplinary integration of Husserl's phenomenology, psychology, empirical studies, and ethics. Its great virtue is to show how phenomenology can elucidate the essence of crucial everyday ethical problems such as those in leadership, parenting, and the starting of an affair. -- John Riker, Professor of Philosophy, Colorado College, USA This is a unique book with plenty of fascinating material. I recommend the chapters on 'Husserl's Ethics and Psychology', 'The Ethics of Intimacy', the chapters on research methods and ethical parenting dilemmas, and in fact, all the chapters in this book, to everybody with an interest in phenomenology, psychology, or both. I couldn't stop reading. * Tanja Staehler, Professor of European Philosophy, University of Sussex, UK * Exceptional, commendable, and interesting ... One could not stop reading. * Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy *