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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.

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      Publisher: Nova Science Publishers Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/06/2007
      ISBN13: 9781600217906, 978-1600217906
      ISBN10: 1600217907

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      Book Synopsis
      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.

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