My long time interest has always centered around systems, systems theory, complexity and emergence. Further, it's always been focused towards, or through, psychology. Much of psychology deals with pathological states i.e. what's wrong with you rather than apithological states i.e what's right about you and can be enhanced.

Along with my intellectual evolution to a voluntaristic/libertarian mindset it has occurred to me that philosophies that hold human failings as the basis of their precepts such as social contract theory are pathologizing belief systems while libertarian philosophies are apithologizing belieef systems.

In my mind, apithologizing systems concentrate on optimizing, development, normative behavior. Jung's practice of individuation is such a system as was Maslow's theory of self actualization, Csikszentmihalyi's notion of Flow and the autotelic self is a more contemporaneous one. Obviously, I need to look for more non-psychology references.

My hope is to really investigate and explore these types of systems in /r/panarchism[1] but wanted to post the general idea here for feedback.