Self-Fulfillment Hardcover Alan Gewirth Hardcover Book Self Help
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- Book Title
- Self-Fulfillment Hardcover Alan Gewirth
- ISBN
- 9780691059761
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691059764
ISBN-13
9780691059761
eBay Product ID (ePID)
526197
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
248 Pages
Publication Name
Self-Fulfillment
Language
English
Subject
Personal Growth / General, Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Philosophy, Self-Help
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
18 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
98-005127
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
171.3
Table Of Content
Preface Ch. 1 The Ideal of Self-Fulfillment 3 1.1 Self-Fulfillment: Pro and Con 3 1.2 Some Terminological Distinctions 6 1.3 Self-Fulfillment as Actualization of Potentialities 8 1.4 Two Modes of Self-Fulfillment 13 Ch. 2 Self-Fulfillment as Aspiration-Fulfillment 19 2.1 What Are Aspirations? 19 2.2 How Does One Get Aspirations? 30 2.3 How Does One Fulfill One's Aspirations? 37 2.4 To What Does One and Should One Aspire? 46 2.5 Three Types of Morality 52 Ch. 3 Capacity-Fulfillment and Universalist Morality 59 3.1 Capacities and Their Fulfillment 59 3.2 Weighing Values to Determine the Best Capacities: The Purposive Ranking Thesis 66 3.3 Is Reason the Best of Human Capacities? 71 3.4 The Rational Justification of Universalist Morality 77 3.5 Universalist Morality and Fulfillment of the Reasonable Self 87 3.6 Self-Respect and Diverse Ways of Life 93 3.7 The Moral Criticism of Aspirations 101 Ch. 4 Capacity-Fulfillment and the Good Life 107 4.1 Freedom and Well-Being as the Best of Practical Capacities 107 4.2 Personalist Morality as Based upon Freedom 112 4.3 Identity and Alienation 115 4.4 Personalist Morality as Based upon Well-Being 120 4.5 Virtues and Culture 125 4.6 Duties to Oneself 134 4.7 Particularist Morality: Family, Love, Friendship 140 4.8 Particularist Morality: Community, Country, Culture 151 Ch. 5 Ultimate Values, Rights, and Reason 159 5.1 Human Dignity as the Basis of Rights 159 5.2 Spirituality as Self-Transcendent Excellence 174 5.3 The Meaning of Life 182 5.4 Individual and Social Contexts of Self-Fulfillment 189 5.5 On Varieties of Self-Fulfillment 200 5.6 Human Rights as Bases of Self-Fulfillment 204 5.7 Are Self-Fulfillment and Rights Compatible? 215 5.8 Self-Fulfillment and Rational Agency 217 Index 229
Synopsis
Cultures around the world have regarded self-fulfillment as the ultimate goal of human striving and as the fundamental test of the goodness of a human life. The ideal has also been criticized, however, as egotistical or as so value-neutral that it fails to distinguish between, for example, self-fulfilled sinners and self-fulfilled saints. Alan Gewirth presents here a systematic and highly original study of self-fulfillment that seeks to overcome these and other arguments and to justify the high place that the ideal has been accorded. He does so by developing an ethical theory that ultimately grounds the value of self-fulfillment in the idea of the dignity of human beings. Gewirth begins by distinguishing two models of self- fulfillment--aspiration-fulfillment and capacity-fulfillment--and shows how each of these contributes to the intrinsic value of human life. He then distinguishes between three types of morality--universalist, particularist, and personalist--and shows how each contributes to the values embodied in self-fulfillment. Building on these ideas, he develops a Odialectical' conception of reason that shows how human rights are central to self-fulfillment. Gewirth also argues that self-fulfillment has a social as well as an individual dimension: that the nature of society and the obstacles that disadvantaged groups face affect strongly the character of the self-fulfillment that persons can achieve. Bold in scope and rigorous in execution, Self-Fulfillment is a powerful new contribution to moral, social, and political philosophy.
LC Classification Number
BJ1470.G48 1998
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