Explain How Id,ego, and superego relates to the matter of ethics/morality?
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- 3+ months ago by lauralaura
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- matter, ethics, morality, freud
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Well theyre related because of psychology. The psychology of persons has a lot to do with ethics because it is from the human perspective that we form conclusions about what is wrong and what is right. Therefore its important to study the human person to understand what his guiding forces are to see if the grounds of his ethics are legitimate or if they are adhering to certain principles tgat may be biased. It gives reliability to a ethics by understanding the individual and why they feel the way they do about certain things like stealing and helps him come to objective conclusions(because of the weeding out of subjectivity which comes from understanding human nature). Try reading up on aristotles ethics.
He says that the ego must be conquored in order to live a fully human life, and connects ethics to the person by saying that there is a natural law to man that he naturally follows, that there are natural yet objective laws that man must live by.
Id, ego, and superego are terms invented by Freud. Nobody ever made sense of Freud's theories, and after many years of experimenting, they have been abandoned as useless.
Ethics and morality do not relate to the same subject. When two or more people live in the same area they have to adopt some rules about who does what to whom. Any such rule is called a more', French accented e pronounced "mor-ay". The adjective form is moral, and the habit of following more's is morality. More's do not have to be right, only accepted. Another group on the other side of the river might have very different more's. Ethics means what is right.
He says that the ego must be conquored in order to live a fully human life, and connects ethics to the person by saying that there is a natural law to man that he naturally follows, that there are natural yet objective laws that man must live by.