Self-Fulfillment

by Alan Gewirth

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691144400
• ISBN13: 9780691144405
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"