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Human Flourishing:

In this first systematic reconstruction of the concept of human flourishing, Eri Mountbatten-O’Malley addresses the central problems with the treatment of the concept in psychology, education, policy and science. Drawing on Wittgenstein and his followers, he develops a sophisticated methodology of conceptual analysis and makes the case for paying ...
Vittorio Lingiardi, Abigail Asher
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Mathematics for Human Flourishing

The American Mathematical Monthly, 2017
AbstractHow can the deeply human themes that drive us to do mathematics be channeled to build a more beautiful and just world in which all can truly flourish?
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Organisations that promote eco-human flourishing

Current Opinion in Psychology
Increasing emphasis on the interrelatedness of ecological sustainability and human wellbeing (eco-human flourishing) is evident in global initiatives such as the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals, initiatives that give greater attention to ...
Niki Harré, Komathi Kolandai-Matchett
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Human Flourishing

1999
The essays in this volume examine the nature of human flourishing and its relationship to a variety of other key concepts in moral theory. Some of them trace the link between flourishing and human nature, asking whether a theory of human nature can allow us to develop an objective list of goods that are of value to all agents, regardless of their ...
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Happiness, the Self, and Human Flourishing

Utilitas, 2008
Abstract Our excursion into Aristotelian approaches to well-being served several purposes, one being to counter a major source of doubts about the importance of happiness. At the same time, recognizing the considerable force of the Aristotelian position may soften support for the main alternative, the various forms of subjectivism.
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Religion and Human Flourishing

2021
Seeking to make sense of what is going on in the world without taking account of religion results in understanding that is seriously deficient. Few questions about humanity are more contentious than to ask ‘What is the contribution of religion to human flourishing?’ For many religious believers, their faith is core to their being—a key component of how
Andrew Briggs, Michael J. Reiss
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Music and Human Flourishing

2023
Abstract It has long been accepted that participating in music, either as a performer, listener, and/or composer can contribute to human flourishing. This volume explores a fourth musical activity, the act of music scholarship, and reveals how engagement with the cultural, social, and political practices surrounding music contributes to ...
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The History of the Humanities and Human Flourishing

2022
Abstract The effort to encourage a eudaimonic turn in the humanities marks less a turn, than a return, to the emphasis on human flourishing that was once a central feature of the liberal arts and the humanities as they developed in the West. Though eclipsed for much of the twentieth century, this long-standing emphasis is currently being
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Promoting Human Flourishing in Aging

Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 2017
Human flourishing represents a state of mental health in which an individual is actively striving to live well rather than merely feeling good. This concept provides an important context for nurses working with older adults. Flourishing older adults exhibit a sense of personal growth in that they are still evolving and changing.
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Bibliotherapy and Human Flourishing

2023
Abstract Early in this millennium, as scientific journals moved online, their pages began to fill with studies comparing reading with nonreading, print-reading with screen-reading, book-reading with magazine-reading, fiction-reading with non-fiction-reading, literature-reading with the reading of whatever literature is defined against ...
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