The Making of the Good Person Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book provides a philosophical assessment of the idea of personhood advanced in popular self-help literature. It also traces a culture within philosophy where the self is brought forth as an object of improvement and a key to meaning, progress and profundity. The book is not primarily concerned with critiquing popular self-help and self-transformative practices. Rather, it is concerned with how they work to shape contemporary ideals of moral personhood and are conductive to moral renegotiati...