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Decades of painstaking and sometimes agonizing work in philosophy prove to be worth it all when a book like David Norton's comes along. Moreover, this book provides that philosophy need by no means be a dry and bloodless affair.... One is hard-pressed to think of any other recent or near-recent book that is scholarly yet speaks to laymen so directly, accessibly, and, as a great bonus, beautifully. -- Reason
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David Norton's book is an long overdue corrective on years of abuse heaped upon ethical individualism in text books on ethics. Norton develops the case for an individualism that sees human nature along lines of such classical thinkers as Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, instead of Thomas Hobbes (who is usually named as the founder of modern individualism). The good human life is, by Norton's account, not manifest is constant, relentless desire- satisfaction, so an ethical individualist does not amount to a cruel, self-indulgent person but someone who realizes in himself the full measure of potentiality as a human being, including a robust sociality. This necessarily leads to a virtuous life, especially a life of moral integrity. Norton has given us a wonderful alternative to the ethics of altruism or self-denial without the silly alternative of the asocial bully standing in for individualism. This book should be a must read for anyone really interested in moral philosophy. Tibor R. Machan
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These words by Carl Jung have a twofold significance. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
consequent sociality, antecedent sociality, classical eudaimonism, participatory enactment, qualitative individuation, distributable goods, normative individualism, incidental necessity, qualitative individuality, differential entitlement, potential worth, innate potentiality, alternative possible worlds, refined meanings, finite perfections, integral individual, unique personhood, integral living, innate inclination, ultimate presuppositions, disciplinary language, ultimate possibility, potential excellence, natural lottery, aesthetic stage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Don Juan, New York, British Absolute Idealism, Max Scheler, Abraham Maslow, Nichomachean Ethics, Robinson Crusoe, Robert Nozick, Critique of Recent Eudaimonisms, Nicola Abbagnano, Thomas Nagel, United States New!
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- Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre on 17 pages
- Ethical Studies (Oxford Paperbacks) by F. H. Bradley on 6 pages
- Nicomachean Ethics (Library of Essential Reading) by Aristotle on 6 pages
- Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is; Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Friedrich Nietzsche on 5 pages
- Purity of Heart: Is To Will One Thing (Harper Torchbooks) by Soren Kierkegaard on 4 pages
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- Religious Thought and the Modern Psychologies by Don S. Browning on 6 pages
- Libertarianism Defended by Tibor R. Machan on 5 pages
- The Business of Commerce: Examining an Honorable Profession by James E. Chesher on page 175, page 196, and Back Matter
- Norms Of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis For Non-Perfectionist Politics by Douglas B. Rasmussen on page 113, page 250, and page 263
- The Disciplined Heart: Love, Destiny, and Imagination by Caroline J. Simon on page 18, and Back Matter
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