Heterogony (psychology)

According to Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920), heterogony describes a relationship of effects that arises when, in pursuit of a purpose , the original motive changes after the causality of one's own actions has been observed. Wundt calls such a change in the purpose motifs "side effects" that were not taken into account in the original purpose, but are designed to change the existing purposes or to allow new ones to emerge.

reception

Max Weber (1864–1920) also took up the assumption that there are still side effects in the effects that were not included in the previous conceptions of purposes, but nevertheless enter into new series of motifs and change and supplement the original purposes . On the basis of these facts, he coined the corresponding concepts of ethics of conviction and ethics of responsibility .

literature

Wilhelm Wundt: System of Philosophy . 4th edition 1919
Max Weber: Collected Political Writings . 3rd edition 1988

Individual evidence

^ Wilhelm Wundt : Ethics. An examination of the facts and laws of moral life . Stuttgart: F. Enke, 1912.
^ Karl-Heinz Hillmann : Dictionary of Sociology (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 410). 4th, revised and expanded edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-41004-4 , p. 292 on Lemma: “Ethics of Mind”.

[ETHWW-1] Wilhelm Wundt : Ethics. An examination of the facts and laws of moral life . Stuttgart: F. Enke, 1912.

[SWB-2] Karl-Heinz Hillmann : Dictionary of Sociology (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 410). 4th, revised and expanded edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-520-41004-4 , p. 292 on Lemma: “Ethics of Mind”.