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Addressing South Africa's moral crisissociety, moral identity, and the psycho-social dynamics of post-apartheid South Africa /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Addressing South Africa's moral crisisby Nico Vorster.
Reminder of title:	society, moral identity, and the psycho-social dynamics of post-apartheid South Africa /
Author:	Vorster, Nico.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025.
Description:	xiv, 211 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Political Philosophy.
Subject:	South AfricaEconomic policy.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-97560-8
ISBN:	9783031975608$q(electronic bk.)

Addressing South Africa's moral crisissociety, moral identity, and the psycho-social dynamics of post-apartheid South Africa /
Vorster, Nico.

Addressing South Africa's moral crisissociety, moral identity, and the psycho-social dynamics of post-apartheid South Africa /[electronic resource] :by Nico Vorster. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2025. - xiv, 211 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Moral capacity -- Chapter 3. Basic Need pressures -- Chapter 4. Systemic social pressures -- Chapter 5. Distorted motivational dispositions -- Chapter 6. Distorted behavioral responses -- Chapter 7. Moral identity and virtue -- Chapter 8. Alleviating need pressures and creating opportunities -- Chapter 9. Transmitting and protecting values.

This book attempts to understand and address the psycho-social dynamics behind South Africa's moral crisis. It describes South Africa as afflicted by state capture, violence, corruption, and the looting of state infrastructure thirty years after the establishment of democracy. It then provides a holistic, social diagnosis of this problem that integrates the findings of different disciplines into an overall picture of the forces at work in South Africa's collective moral decline. Ultimately, this book engages with the deeper psycho-social phenomena behind South Africa's moral decline, arguing that the diagnostic question of why this moral decline has taken place must be answered before turning to the normative question of what ought to happen in this situation. Accordingly, this book explores themes regarding the innate moral capacities of the human person, the effects of need pressures and systemic pressures on ethical decision-making, and the phenomena of distorted motivational drives and distorted behavioral responses. It shows how the framing of virtue-centered moral identities might act as buffers against moral disengagement strategies and assist in promoting pro-social behavior. It then specifies the macro-social changes required to create such an ethical-social climate. The book is of interest to social scientists, ethicists, behavioral scientists, educators, theologians, and moral philosophers. In the end, this case study of South Africa shows us more broadly how maintaining public morality and social cohesion is a challenge that most modern societies face.

ISBN: 9783031975608$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-97560-8doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

273774
Political Philosophy.
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

391901
South Africa
--Economic policy.

LC Class. No.: DT1971

Dewey Class. No.: 968.07

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