A01=David L. Norton
Abstractionism
Adolescence
Anonymity
Archetype
Aristotle
Author_David L. Norton
Awareness
Basic Books
Being and Nothingness
Biology
Category of being
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Chauvinism
Consciousness
Contradiction
Determination
Disadvantage
Distributive justice
Empathy
Engineering studies
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Ethics
Eudaimonia
Excellence
Existentialism
Feeling
Hatred
Horticulture
Individual
Individualism
Individuation
Instance (computer science)
Institution
Intention
Jean-Paul Sartre
Man's Place in Nature
Monism
Moral authority
Morality
Natural and legal rights
Nobility
Overreaction
Person
Personal development
Personhood
Philosopher
Philosophy
Potentiality and actuality
Pride
Prima facie
Principle
Projectile
Publication
Pythagoreanism
Religion
Requirement
Resentment
Result
Reward system
Sandal
Self-actualization
Self-awareness
Self-fulfillment
Self-interest
Self-love
Self-realization
Self-reference
Soren Kierkegaard
Subjectivity
Suffering
Suggestion
Superiority (short story)
Will to power
Product details
- ISBN 9780691019758
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 21 Feb 1977
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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What 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. Norton's theory of individualism is rooted in the eudaimonistic ethics of the Creeks, who viewed each person as innately possessing a unique potential it was his destiny to fulfill. Very much the same idea resurfaced in modern times with the British idealists and Continental existentialists. The author reviews these antecedents, showing how his theory differs from those of his predecessors. After a fascinating chapter on "The Stages of Life," Norton shows how the mature consciousness of one's destiny leads to direct, intimate knowledge of other persons, and how this in turn provides the basis for social morality.
The conception of justice in which this theory culminates, rooted as it is in essential human differences, provides a challenging alternative to the much-discussed theories of Rawls and Nozick.
