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Life and life only: a radical alternative to life definitionism
Synthese, 2018To date, no definition of life has been unequivocally accepted by the scientific community. In frustration, some authors advocate alternatives to standard definitions. These include using a list of characteristic features, focusing on life’s effects, or categorizing biospheres rather than life itself; treating life as a fuzzy category, a process or a ...
Carlos Mariscal, W. Ford Doolittle
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The Pleasant Life, the Engaged Life, and the Meaningful Life: What About the Balanced Life?
Journal of Happiness Studies, 2007Martin Seligman, in his very popular book Authentic Happiness (Seligman 2002), argued that authentic happiness is derived from three major sets of experiences in life, namely experiencing pleasantness regularly (the pleasant life), experiencing a high level of engagement in satisfying activities (the engaged life), and experiencing a sense of ...
M. Joseph Sirgy, Jiyun Wu
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The Good Life and the Life Sciences
Politics and the Life Sciences, 1988Arnhart's “Aristotle's Biopolitics: A Defense of Biological Teleology against Biological Nihilism” is both a valuable and yet at the same time a problematic study. Its value for political science lies in Arnhart's reminder that for many of the most important thinkers in the history of Western political thought their efforts to discover and articulate ...
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Sanctity of Life or Quality of Life?
Pediatrics, 1983The ethical outlook that holds human life to be sacrosanct—I shall call it the "sanctity-of-life view"—is under attack. The first major blow to the sanctity of life view was the spreading acceptance of abortion throughout the Western world. Supporters of the sanctity-of-life view have pointed out that some premature babies are less developed than some ...
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Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, 2008
Your client is talking about his or her life situation--the end of a relationship, aging and ill parents, loss of a job, or disappointments in life. As nurse psychotherapists, we are trained to assist clients in ventilating feelings, identifying the underlying conflict, lending perspective about the psychodynamics of the situation, guiding the ...
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Your client is talking about his or her life situation--the end of a relationship, aging and ill parents, loss of a job, or disappointments in life. As nurse psychotherapists, we are trained to assist clients in ventilating feelings, identifying the underlying conflict, lending perspective about the psychodynamics of the situation, guiding the ...
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The Quality of Life, The Sanctity of Life
The Hastings Center Report, 1978The tragic case of Karen Ann Quinlan sent moral theologians and ethicists back to their traditions to reevaluate the formulations that attempted to spell out and mediate traditional value judgments in an increasingly complex world. Conceptualization has always been very important to moral theology. Because times, circumstances, and perspectives change,
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Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition, 2019
Anna, Baverstock, Fiona, Finlay
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Anna, Baverstock, Fiona, Finlay
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