Handbook of eudaimonic well-being / Joar Vittersø, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vitterso, Joar, editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

Howard R. Jachman Memorial Fund.

Series:

International handbooks of quality-of-life

International handbooks of quality-of-life, 2468-7235

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Happiness.

Quality of life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 569 pages).

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Switzerland : Springer, [2016]

System Details:

text file

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.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Howard R. Jachman Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Handbook of Eudaimonic Well-being.

ISBN:

9783319424453

3319424459

Publisher Number:

99988144397

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Restricted for use by site license.