Human Flourishing Across Cultures and Disciplines
What does it mean to flourish? This open access book serves as a call to action to reimagine and work towards a world where flourishing is a reality for all. An international team of scholars, practitioners, wisdom keepers, and policymakers come together to construct alternative visions of what a fl...
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| description | What does it mean to flourish? This open access book serves as a call to action to reimagine and work towards a world where flourishing is a reality for all. An international team of scholars, practitioners, wisdom keepers, and policymakers come together to construct alternative visions of what a flourishing life could encompass. Their inclusive approach integrates indigenous wisdom, happiness, care, and storytelling and broadens our ideas of what it means to flourish. Where Western perspectives often emphasize individuality and wealth, here contributors look beyond individual achievement and material success as benchmarks of a successful life. Instead they foreground the intrinsic value of interpersonal relationships, community bonds, and spiritual fulfilment. Interweaving the threads of philosophical, scientific, indigenous, and political thought, they build a holistic understanding of human well-being and flourishing. We see how spiritual and metaphysical beliefs can coexist with scientific validity and contribute meaningfully to our understanding of human aspiration. A foreword from former Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon lays the groundwork for new attainable utopias that will help shape future Sustainable Development Goals. By encouraging us to rethink policies and our collective futures, this one-of-a-kind collection introduces us to a truly flourishing society where all dimensions of life are equally valued. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The New Institute. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1779032026-06-22T05:33:36Z Human Flourishing Across Cultures and Disciplines Zwitter, Andrej Eudaimonia Good life Well-being Policy studies Sustainability studies SDGs Community Spiritual emotional And communal health Materialist empiricism Poverty Indigenous thought United Nations Environmental sustainability Civil happiness Positive psychology Spiritual exploration thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies and policy thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDA Philosophy of science thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPQ Central / national / federal government::JPQB Central / national / federal government policies What does it mean to flourish? This open access book serves as a call to action to reimagine and work towards a world where flourishing is a reality for all. An international team of scholars, practitioners, wisdom keepers, and policymakers come together to construct alternative visions of what a flourishing life could encompass. Their inclusive approach integrates indigenous wisdom, happiness, care, and storytelling and broadens our ideas of what it means to flourish. Where Western perspectives often emphasize individuality and wealth, here contributors look beyond individual achievement and material success as benchmarks of a successful life. Instead they foreground the intrinsic value of interpersonal relationships, community bonds, and spiritual fulfilment. Interweaving the threads of philosophical, scientific, indigenous, and political thought, they build a holistic understanding of human well-being and flourishing. We see how spiritual and metaphysical beliefs can coexist with scientific validity and contribute meaningfully to our understanding of human aspiration. A foreword from former Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon lays the groundwork for new attainable utopias that will help shape future Sustainable Development Goals. By encouraging us to rethink policies and our collective futures, this one-of-a-kind collection introduces us to a truly flourishing society where all dimensions of life are equally valued. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The New Institute. 2026-06-22T05:33:34Z 2026-06-22T05:33:34Z 2026-06-21T09:13:29Z 2026 book book ONIX_20260621T103019_9781350547834_29 https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350547841?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/114155 9781350547834 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/177903 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/114155/1/9781350547834.pdf Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Bloomsbury Academic b7fec79e-c133-4cb3-9544-88060a4d4e06 9781350547834 Bloomsbury Academic 392 London open access |
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| topic | Eudaimonia Good life Well-being Policy studies Sustainability studies SDGs Community Spiritual emotional And communal health Materialist empiricism Poverty Indigenous thought United Nations Environmental sustainability Civil happiness Positive psychology Spiritual exploration thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies and policy thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDA Philosophy of science thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPQ Central / national / federal government::JPQB Central / national / federal government policies |
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