Handbook of eudaimonic well-being / Joar Vittersø, editor.
This handbook presents the most comprehensive account of eudaimonic well-being to date. It brings together theoretical insights and empirical updates presented by leading scholars and young researchers. The handbook examines philosophical and historical approaches to the study of happy lives and goo...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer,
[2016]
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| Series: | International handbooks of quality-of-life.
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| Online Access: | Springer eBooks |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Contents; Contributors; 1: The Most Important Idea in the World: An Introduction; 1.1 Everyone Wants to Be Happy; 1.2 Jingles and Jangles; 1.2.1 The Two Cultures About Happiness; 1.3 Conceptualizing Eudaimonia; 1.3.1 The Etymology; 1.3.2 Translating Eudaimonia into English; 1.3.3 Psychological Theories of Eudaimonia; 1.3.4 Other Understandings of Eudaimonia; 1.4 Conceptual Controversies; 1.4.1 Do We Really Need the Concept of Eudaimonia?; 1.5 Fulfilling the Intrinsic Values of Human Nature; 1.5.1 Purpose and Meaning; 1.6 Conclusion; References
- 2.6.1 Why Employ Eudaimonic Measures?2.6.2 A Note in Defense of Subjective Well-Being Metrics; 2.7 What to Measure: A Core Schema for Flourishing Scales; 2.7.1 Deciding What to Measure; 2.7.2 Agency; 2.7.3 Relationships; 2.7.4 Meaning; 2.7.5 Emotional Well-Being; 2.7.6 Other Possibilities: Authenticity, Knowledge, Virtue; 2.8 Conclusion; References; 3: Ethics and Eudaimonic Well-Being; 3.1 What Is the Normative Core of EWB?; 3.2 Prudence and Eudaimonic Well-being ; 3.3 Eudaimonic Well-being and Morality; 3.3.1 Well-being and Approval
- 3.3.2 Justified and Unjustified Perceptions of Deprivation3.4 Synthesis; References; 4: Aristotle on Eudaimonia: On the Virtue of Returning to the Source; 4.1 Eudaimonia in Ancient and Modern Thought; 4.2 An Overview of Eudaimonia; 4.2.1 Eudaimonia as an Ethical Concept; 4.2.2 Eudaimonia as Nature-Fulfillment; 4.2.3 Eudaimonia as Activity; 4.2.4 Eudaimonia as Constitutive Activity; 4.2.5 The Multiple Constituents of Eudaimonia; 4.2.6 Eudaimonia and Pleasure; 4.2.7 Eudaimonia and Virtue; 4.2.8 Eudaimonia as a Complete Life; 4.2.9 Eudaimonia as the Final End; 4.3 Conclusion
- Part I: Philosophical Eudaimonism2: The Philosophical Basis of Eudaimonic Psychology; 2.1 Introduction ; 2.2 The Approach; 2.3 Objections; 2.4 Attractions; 2.4.1 Four Theoretical Virtues; 2.4.2 Two Substantive Virtues: Authenticity and Impoverishment; 2.5 Variants; 2.5.1 Nature-Fulfillment: The Basic Idea, and Open Questions; 2.5.2 The Role of Virtue: Perfectionism vs. Non-perfectionism; 2.5.3 Two Ideals of Nature-Fulfillment: Actualization vs. Success; 2.5.4 Does Your Well-Being Depend Entirely on Your Particular Makeup?; 2.6 Justifying Eudaimonic Measures.