Philosophy and human flourishing /
"Philosophy and Human Flourishing explores two pressing questions: What is a thriving, fulfilling, flourishing human life? What practices, associations, and institutions produce flourishing lives? These questions--in essence, "What are flourishing lives and how can we lead them?"--are...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| Series: | Humanities and human flourishing.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Philosophy and Human Flourishing explores two pressing questions: What is a thriving, fulfilling, flourishing human life? What practices, associations, and institutions produce flourishing lives? These questions--in essence, "What are flourishing lives and how can we lead them?"--are long central to philosophy. Now, however, they can be addressed in light of new insights in positive psychology, psychiatry, evolutionary biology, cognitive science, and behavioral economics, as well as new research in philosophy itself, including feminist theory, critical race studies, philosophical psychology, neuro-ethics, and more. The thirteen contributors chart new directions for understanding and securing human flourishing. Reflecting the fact that lives and cultures differ, the perspectives are pluralistic. Part I considers the meaning of human flourishing through analyses of the nature of purposeful, mattering lives; biological, psychological, and social levels of homeostasis; the nature of human agency and the role of narrative in it; the nature of the self and self-fulfillment; the centrality of subjective values and non-subjective conditions that make possible these values; and the need to encompass the wide diversity of human lives. Part II considers conditions on which flourishing depends. These include habits flexible enough to confront ever-changing realities; conditions of social justice rather than supposed self-help; epistemic responsibility and sensitivity to social relations; civility and values literacy; educational reconstruction, particularly in the humanities; a cultural focus on eudaimonic values rather than mere technical efficiency and marketplace consumerism; and the role of creative arts in transforming our abilities, promoting genuine self-government, and providing consolation in the face of loss"--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxvi, 315 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197622193 0197622194 9780197622186 0197622186 9780197622209 0197622208 |