- Flourishing
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- T247698
- Flourishing (English, Latin script, Original)
Flourishing “is the combination of feeling good and functioning effectively.“
- language:
- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
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The term “human flourishing” is just one of the possible translations of the ancient Greek term “eudaimonia.” “Well-being” and “happiness” are sometimes used as well. Flourishing is not a passive state of being; it involves activity, and in the case of human beings, rational activity.
- language:
- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
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Human flourishing is defined as an effort to achieve self-actualization and fulfillment within the context of a larger community of individuals, each with the right to pursue his or her own such efforts. It encompasses the uniqueness, dignity, diversity, freedom, happiness, and holistic well-being of the individual within the larger family, community, and population. Achieving human flourishing is a life-long existential journey of hopes, achievements, regrets, losses, illness, suffering, and coping.
- language:
- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
Flourishing consists of something more than one’s mental state and how one feels about various aspects of life. In the philosophical literature, arguments have been put forward that virtue is a central component of flourishing. There are four fundamental virtues upon which all others depend. These four are sometimes referred to as: prudence or practical wisdom; justice; fortitude or courage; and temperance or moderation (23). Also notably absent from the aforementioned list of aspects of psychological flourishing is health. However, health is arguably central to a person’s sense of wholeness and well-being...Flourishing itself might be understood as a state in which all aspects of a person’s life are good. We might also refer to such a state as complete human well-being, which is again arguably a broader concept than psychological well-being.
- language:
- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
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Human flourishing is a state achieved when an individual’s activities and decisions within their community allows all aspects of their lives to become good. Achieving human flourishing requires a life-long journey of successes and failures.
- language:
- English
- Author:
- Hawken Wanamaker