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## Abstract 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 th

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Author

John J. Stuhr; Valerie Tiberius

Publisher

Oxford University PressNew York

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780197622162

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Philosophy, Humanities