Abstract

It is the author's contention that individual self-improvement is the sole end of human life. A sufficient number of the sensate goods of life must be fully available to the individual through his own efforts, always presupposing, however, a certain stimulus in providing the grounds for attaining these goods. The individual, as individual, must provide himself with a sufficient amount of rest and play for his own health's sake. The culture must be made to provide opportunities of subsistence work for all. In a good society, Adler believes, it is possible for all of its members to realize the good life. A cultural revolution is the only revolution called for in the United States. As an advanced technological society, the United States has the potential and the obligation to provide a living wage for all of its people. Indeed, America has moved a long way toward meeting this responsibility. Never at any time in the past have so many people been provided with the basic means to sustain a decent livelihood. Despite the potentialities present for the making of a good life, the prevailing educational system seems to Adler more suited to the education of a slave class. Our institutions of learning in large measure seem to exist as commissaries available to every conceivable technological purpose, whose ultimate usage is support for the military industrial complex. It is here, in the educational system, much more than in any other area, that reform and even revolution is imperative.--H. S.