Table of Contents

1. My Major Concern.- 2. Why I Waited So Long.- 3. New Challenges from Today’s Human Situation.- 4. New Dimensions of Human Existence.- 5. First Responses to the New Challenges.- 6. Minimum and Optimum Meanings for Human Existence.- 7 The Steppingstones: A Preview.- I New Ontic Dimensions of the Self.- 1. On the I-Am-Me Experience in Childhood and Adolescence.- 2. A Phenomenological Approach to the Ego.- 3. On the Motility of the Ego.- 4. Initiating: A Phenomenological Analysis.- 5. Putting Ourselves into the Place of Others: Toward a Phenomenology of Imaginary Self-Transposal.- II New Ethical Dimensions.- 6. ‘Accident of Birth’: A Non-Utilitarian Motif in Mill’s Philosophy.- 7. A Defense of Human Equality.- 8. Equality in Existentialism.- 9. Human Dignity: A Challenge to Contemporary Philosophy.- 10. Ethics for Fellows in the Fate of Existence.- 11. Good Fortune Obligates: Albert Schweitzer’s Second Ethical Principle.- 12. Why Compensate the Naturally Handicapped?.- III Applications Problems of the Nuclear Age.- 13. Is there a Human Right to One’s Native Soil?.- 14. Toward Global Solidarity.- 15. The Nuclear Powers are Forfeiting their Claim to Civil Obedience.- IV Phenomenological Foundations.- 16. Unfairness and Fairness: A Phenomenological Analysis.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.