CONTENTS Introduction: Building a Better Paradigm Thomas E. Wren and Gil G. Noam vii 1 On the Necessity of Ideals Harry Frankfurt 16 What It Takes to Be Good Amelie Oksenberg Rorty 28 Self, Idealization, and the Development of Values Ernest S. Wolf 56 The Operi-Textured Concepts of Morality and the Self Thomas E. Wren 78 2 Building a New Paradigm The Development of Identity: Some Implications for Moral Functioning Augusta Rlasi 99 Morality and Personal Autonomy Larry Nucci and John Lee 123 The Uniting- of Self and Morality in the Development of Extraordinary Moral Commitment Anne Colby and William Damon 149 Morality, Self, and Sociohistorical Context: The Role of Lay Social Theory Helen Haste 175 Normative Vulnerabilities of Self and Their Transformations in Moral Action Gil G. Noam 209 Balanced Identity: Morality and Other Identity Values Mordecai Nisan 239 3 Empirical Investigation The Growth of Moral Motivation Gertrud Nunner-Winkler 269 Understanding Oughts by Assessing Moral Reasoning or Moral Emotions Leo Mvntada 292 The Development of the Moral Self from Childhood to Adolescence Monika Keller and Wolfgang Edelstein 310 Individual and Group Selves: Motivation, Morality, and Evolution Ervin Staub 337 Threats to the Self in the Peer World: Observations of Twelve-Year-Old Children in Natural Settings Lothar Krappmann 359 Contributors 383 Index 387