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Title: |
Self-Realization |
| Sub-title: |
Politics & the Good Life in Modern Times |
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| By (author): |
Mark Evans |
| ISBN10-13: |
1600217907 : 9781600217906 |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
180x260mm |
| Pages: |
215 |
| Weight: |
.746 Kg. |
| Published: |
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US) - June 2007 |
| List Price: |
163.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| Subjects: |
Psychological theory & schools of thought |
| This book elaborates a plausible and attractive conception of 'self-realisation' as an ideal of how one might live well by developing one's talents and capacities, which is suitable for the modern age. This ideal is a valid concern for modern political theory in that it can contribute to how we can encourage our social and political institutions. It explains that the contention of self-realisation is a fitting concern for 'modern times', yet seeking a secularised conception, removing the monopoly certain Eastern philosophies seem to have adopted. The author demonstrates that utopian ethical and political thinking has value in enriching our imaginations, is not on a slippery slope towards a dangerously totalitarian 'engineering of the soul' and can be used to inspire incremental changes to existing institutions and practices in a robustly 'down-to-earth' conception of the politically feasible. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Theorising Self-Realisation in Modernity; Aristotle: Self-Realisation and Virtue-Ethics; Mill: Self-Realisation in Modernity; Marx: Self-Realisation Through Labour; Some Problems in Self-Realisationist Political Theory: A Critique of Communism; Self-Realisation: A Perfectionist Ethic for Modern Politics. |
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