Includes bibliographies and index.

Part I. Philosophies of aging -- On the types of human character / Aristotle -- The vedic ideal : laws of Manu / Manu -- On old age / Cicero -- On age / Montaigne -- The myth of the cave / Plato -- Death and aging in technopolis : toward a role definition of wisdom / Edmund Byrne -- Part II. Ethical aspects of aging -- On growing old gracefully / Lin Yutang -- The book of filial piety / Confucius -- The ethics of providing for the economic well-being of the aging / B.J. Diggs -- Etension of the life span : a national goal? / James L. Goddard -- Extension of the active life : ethical issues / James M. Gustafson -- Part III. Epistemological aspects of aging -- Socrates and Cephalus / Plato -- The ages of life / Arthur Schopenhauer -- The life review : an interpretation of reminiscence in the aged / Robert N. Butler -- Aging, catastrophe, and moral reasoning / James B. Orr -- Toward a stage theory of adult cognitive development / K. Warner Schaie -- The coming of age / Simone de Beauvoir -- Part IV. Gerontology and philosophy of science -- The phenomenological approach to images of aging / Michel Philibert -- Age changes and age differences / K. Warner Schaie -- Two theories of aging / Elaine Cumming and William Henry.

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