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The great enemy of integrity is not falsehood as such but … the attractiveness of foreign truths, truths that belong to others.

— David L. Norton Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976)

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Imitation is replication of particulars, emulation is adoption of an exemplified universal or principle.

Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976)

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.

Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976)

For eudaimonism, an ethics of prohibition is a contradiction in terms.

Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976)

An undifferentiated absolute is normatively impotent because it can offer no principle for the apportionment of responsibility.

Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976)

To speak a truth that belongs to another is untruth, for speaking belongs to living, hence to speak another’s truth is to live a life that is not one’s own.

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