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Book SynopsisWhat is a thriving, meaningful, and flourishing human life? What practices, associations, policies, and institutions support flourishing lives?These questions are not new ones. Philosophers from Buddha and Socrates onward have stressed that love of wisdom is demonstrated by living well--not by thought or theory alone but by action and practice. In light of new developments in positive psychology, psychiatry, evolutionary biology, cognitive science, and behavioral economics, these questions can be addressed with fresh insight rooted in both theory and practice. This new perspective is further supported by recent research in feminist theory, critical race studies, philosophical psychology, neuro-ethics, and more. Philosophy and Human Flourishing both draws on and charts new directions for philosophy and humanistic thought aimed at human flourishing.To reflect the fact that human lives and cultures differ, the perspectives here are refreshingly pluralistic, a commitment evident in the bre
Table of ContentsEditor's Introduction Philosophy and Human Flourishing: Good Lives and How to Lead Them Part I: Meanings of Human Flourishing Chapter 1: The Conatus Project: Mattering and Morality by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein Chapter 2: Flourishing in the Flesh by Mark Johnson Chapter 3: Pragmatic Stories of Selves and Their Flourishing by Jessica Wahman Chapter 4: Well-Being: Taking Our Selves Seriously by Daniel M. Haybron Chapter 5: Hybrid Subjectivism about Well-Being by Valerie Tiberius Chapter 6: The Allure of the All by John Lachs Part II: Human Flourishing in Practice Chapter 7: Pragmatism About Flourishing: Conceptual Clarity and Practical Genius by John J. Stuhr Chapter 8: Navigating Irreconcilable Conflicts: Philosophical Thinking for Better Lives in Unjust Contexts by Lori Gallegos de Castillo Chapter 9: Relational Insensitivity: Social Deadening and the Interdependence of Flourishing and Withering by José Medina Chapter 10: Values Literacy and Citizenship by John Z. Sadler Chapter 11: Teaching Philosophy: The Love of Wisdom and the Cultivation of Human Flourishing by James Pawelski Chapter 12: Cultivating Autotelic Activities and Freedom to Flourish by Jennifer Hansen Chapter 13: Philosophy and the Art of Human Flourishing by Michele Moody-Adams
