| Preface | |
| Ch. 1 | The Ideal of Self-Fulfillment | 3 |
| 1.1 | Self-Fulfillment: Pro and Con | 3 |
| 1.2 | Some Terminological Distinctions | 6 |
| 1.3 | Self-Fulfillment as Actualization of Potentialities | 8 |
| 1.4 | Two Modes of Self-Fulfillment | 13 |
| Ch. 2 | Self-Fulfillment as Aspiration-Fulfillment | 19 |
| 2.1 | What Are Aspirations? | 19 |
| 2.2 | How Does One Get Aspirations? | 30 |
| 2.3 | How Does One Fulfill One's Aspirations? | 37 |
| 2.4 | To What Does One and Should One Aspire? | 46 |
| 2.5 | Three Types of Morality | 52 |
| Ch. 3 | Capacity-Fulfillment and Universalist Morality | 59 |
| 3.1 | Capacities and Their Fulfillment | 59 |
| 3.2 | Weighing Values to Determine the Best Capacities: The Purposive Ranking Thesis | 66 |
| 3.3 | Is Reason the Best of Human Capacities? | 71 |
| 3.4 | The Rational Justification of Universalist Morality | 77 |
| 3.5 | Universalist Morality and Fulfillment of the Reasonable Self | 87 |
| 3.6 | Self-Respect and Diverse Ways of Life | 93 |
| 3.7 | The Moral Criticism of Aspirations | 101 |
| Ch. 4 | Capacity-Fulfillment and the Good Life | 107 |
| 4.1 | Freedom and Well-Being as the Best of Practical Capacities | 107 |
| 4.2 | Personalist Morality as Based upon Freedom | 112 |
| 4.3 | Identity and Alienation | 115 |
| 4.4 | Personalist Morality as Based upon Well-Being | 120 |
| 4.5 | Virtues and Culture | 125 |
| 4.6 | Duties to Oneself | 134 |
| 4.7 | Particularist Morality: Family, Love, Friendship | 140 |
| 4.8 | Particularist Morality: Community, Country, Culture | 151 |
| Ch. 5 | Ultimate Values, Rights, and Reason | 159 |
| 5.1 | Human Dignity as the Basis of Rights | 159 |
| 5.2 | Spirituality as Self-Transcendent Excellence | 174 |
| 5.3 | The Meaning of Life | 182 |
| 5.4 | Individual and Social Contexts of Self-Fulfillment | 189 |
| 5.5 | On Varieties of Self-Fulfillment | 200 |
| 5.6 | Human Rights as Bases of Self-Fulfillment | 204 |
| 5.7 | Are Self-Fulfillment and Rights Compatible? | 215 |
| 5.8 | Self-Fulfillment and Rational Agency | 217 |
| Index | 229 |
