David L. Norton: Self

David L. Norton was American philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on self.
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“There are most certainly two distinguishable kinds of truths, “truths of reason” (that two plus two equals four) and “truths of fact” (that the sky appears blue). By his resort to his daimon Socrates added the class of “truths of self,” personal truths.”

David L. Norton

Source: Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976), p. 7

Truth , Appearance , Personality

“We are apprehensive that an ear turned to our inwardness will detect at most only meaningless murmurings, that a resort to the inner self will be a dizzying tumble into a bottomless pit. Fearing this, we anchor ourselves upon external things, we cast our lot with the fortunes of objects and events that appear to be untainted by the disease of selfhood.”

David L. Norton

Source: Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976), p. 4

Fear , Disease , Appearance

“According to self-actualization ethics, it is every person’s primary responsibility first to discover the daimon within him and thereafter to live in accordance with it.”

David L. Norton

Source: Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976), p. 16

Personality

“Autonomy is not "total self-sufficiency" but "the entitlement of each interactive entity to determine for itself what its contributions to others will be and, likewise, to determine for itself what use it will make of the self-determined contributions of other entities.”

David L. Norton

Imagination, Understanding, and the Virtue of Liberality, ch. 4