Autonomy and Life represents the work of Arnold Siegel, (1939-2025), an American philosopher, teacher and its founder. This site offers an opening into his unique voice, his commitment to the challenge to “know thyself” and his enormous contribution to the transformative experiment that supports civilized life in America. Its content looks to define the rich and dynamic ontology of the free individual, identifying the free individual with the public person in principled possession of itself. Arnold's hope was for this content to be relevant and meaningful in our efforts to know who we are, create and live a life of our own design and be at home in the world.
The classes and coursework Arnold Siegel conducted reflected his ongoing effort to push the horizons of this new philosophical paradigm. This paradigmatic shift in ontology offered a more real and useful description for addressing our natural and social circumstances, together with a practical methodology for autonomously authoring a more free, more self-possessed, more authentically original and fulfilling life.
Progress is being made in the effort to offer Arnold's previously recorded classes and coursework to those individuals interested in the study, development and artful practice of this new performative ontology.
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