The way an individual's psychology is intertwined with their morality is the subject of this fascinating book from the pen of the late Ilham Dilman. Dilman convincingly argues that evil, though it cannot be reduced to psychological terms (it is a moral concept) is explicable in terms of an individual person's psychology. Goodness, by contrast, comes from the person and not their psychology. Philosophers the world over will want to read this book and see how Dilman skillfully defends his arguments.

Preface

ix

Acknowledgements

xi

Introduction: the book's structure and contents

1

(7)

Body and soul

8

(15)

Cartesian dualism: a metaphysical dichotomy

8

(1)

An ethico-religious dichotomy

9

(3)

The soul after death

12

(3)

An after-life or the thoughts of the living?

15

(4)

Summing up: the living language of spirituality and the dead-end of metaphysics

19

(4)

The self and its identity in human life

23

(21)

The self and human existence

23

(7)

Human life and the individual's identity

30

(7)

The self in goodness and evil

37

(5)

Summing up and looking forward

42

(2)

The self in psychoanalysis: Heinz Kohut and narcissism

44

(22)

Heinz Kohut: self-psychology and narcissism

44

(5)

Narcissism: healthy, unhealthy?

49

(6)

Narcissism and self-esteem

55

(4)

Supposed higher forms of narcissism

59

(4)

Summing up

63

(3)

Shame, guilt and remorse

66

(16)

Introduction

66

(1)

Moral authenticity and shame

67

(6)

Shame: nakedness and modesty

73

(2)

Does shame have to be egocentric?

75

(2)

Guilt and remorse

77

(2)

Conclusion: moralities of love, shame and fear

79

(3)

Psychology and human behaviour: is there a limit to psychological explanation?

82

(19)

Introduction

82

(1)

A sketch of the logic of psychological assessment

82

(2)

A determining and an enabling psychology

84

(4)

Morality and psychology

88

(4)

Morality, moral education and Freud's divided self

92

(4)

Adult religion and Freud's God as a father substitute

96

(4)

Conclusion

100

(1)

Morality and psychological health

101

(21)

Psychoanalysis and ethics

101

(7)

Coming to moral knowledge in self-renunciation

108

(4)

Psychology and `the underside of ethics'

112

(3)

A new moral psychology?

115

(7)

Goodness, evil and their respective psychologies

122

(25)

Introduction: an asymmetry between good and evil

122

(4)

Goodness and maturity

126

(2)

Goodness and moral knowledge

128

(2)

The psychology of the evil person

130

(9)

Evil and the individual's arrested development

139

(5)

Conclusion: good and evil, generosity and meanness

144

(3)

Good and evil: summing up and taking stock

147

(9)

Bibliography

156

(3)

Index of names

159

(2)

Index of subjects

161

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