Preface: The Project of an Existential Theory of Personhood

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xv
4. Preface: The Project of an Existential Theory of Personhood xvii
5. Part I: The Idea of Willing as Projective Motivation
6. 1. Introduction 1
7. 2. The Heroic Will in Eastern and Western Perspectives 28
8. 3. From Action Theory to Projective Motivation 47
9. 4. The Erosiac Structure of Desire in Plato and Aristotle 86
10. 5. Aristotelian Desires and the Problems of Egoism 122
11. Part II: The Existential Critique of Eudaimonism
12. 6. Psychological Eudaimonism: A Reading of Aristotle 171
13. 7. The Paradox of Eudaimonism: An Existential Critique 201
14. 8. Contemporary Solutions to the Paradox and Their Problems 235
15. Part III: Case Studies for the Existential Will as Projective Motivation
16. 9. Divine and Human Creativity: From Plato to Levinas 287
17. 10. Radical Evil and Projective Strength of Will 326
18. 11. Scotus and Kant: The Moral Will and Its Limits 371
19. 12. Existential Psychology and Intrinsic Motivation: Deci, Maslow, and Frankl 418
20. 13. Caring, Aretaic Commitment, and Existential Resolve 458
21. 14. An Existential Objectivist Account of What Is Worth Caring About 487
22. Conclusion: The Danger of Willfulness Revisited 539
23. Notes 547
24. Glossary of Definitions, Technical Terms, and Abbreviations 657
25. Bibliography 665
26. Index 691