Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical IndividualismWhat is the meaning of life? Modern professional philosophy has largely renounced the attempt to answer this question and has restricted itself to the pursuit of more esoteric truths. Not so David Norton. Following in the footsteps of Plato and Aristotle, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, Jung and Maslow, he sets forth a distinctive vision of the individual's search for his place in the scheme of things. |
Contents
The Ethical Priority of SelfActualization | 3 |
Critique of Recent Eudaimonisms British Absolute Idealism | 42 |
Critique of Recent Eudaimonisms Kierkegaard and Nietzsche | 64 |
Critique of Recent Eudaimonisms The Existentialism of Sartre | 95 |
The Metaphysics of Individualism | 122 |
The Stages of Life Childhood Adolescence Maturation Old Age | 158 |
Eudaimonia The Quality of Moral Life in the Stage of Maturation | 216 |