Self-realisation and ageing: a spiritual perspective
Self-realisation and ageing: a spiritual perspective
This chapter explores how perspectives on ageing and spirituality can offer promising new roads to study how ageing individuals strive for self-realization and meaning under late modern conditions. The strengths and weaknesses of self-realization as an influential late modern moral ideal in relation to the existential vulnerability inherent to the ageing process are discussed. The chapter argues that when self-realization is connected to views about spiritual development, this creates new insights in the opportunities for meaning and development that can be encountered in conditions of even vulnerable later life. These insights also enable critical reflection on the structural-societal processes influencing the social position and life experiences of older people.
Keywords: self-realization, spirituality, ageing, meaning, late modernity
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