29%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Self-Fulfillment
Alan Gewirth
€ 40.99
€ 29.20
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Self-Fulfillment
Paperback. 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 and value-neutral. This book seeks to overcome these and other arguments. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 156 x 236 x 15. Weight in Grams: 368.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
409g
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691144405
SKU
V9780691144405
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Alan Gewirth
Alan Gewirth is Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. He is the author of "Reason and Morality, The Community of Rights, "and" Human Rights: Essays on Justification and Applications."
Reviews for Self-Fulfillment
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1999