The Endogenous Ambivalence of the Ethics of Self-Realization. Yesterday and Today
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https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.54.2024.30932Keywords:
self-realization, Alfred Edward Taylor, John Dewey, idealistic ethicsAbstract
This article seeks to clarify the philosophical problems that underlie the endogenous ambivalence of the ethics of self-realization, reviewing the debate raised by the moral ideal of «self-realization» as it is found in Dewey’s «Self-realization as the moral ideal» (1893), and Alfred Edward Taylor’s «Self-realization -a critique» (1896). After showing the philosophical inconsistencies around «self-realization», as described during the 19th century by both philosophers, the text proposes to find the traces of this moral ideal in our present time.
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