Human Flourishing

• Human flourishing


  An endeavor to achieve self-actualization and fulfillment within the context of a larger community of individuals. This also means access to the pleasant life, the engaged or good life and the meaningful life.
• Eudaimonia


  Good spirit, a property of one's life when considered as a whole. It is formally egoistic in that a person's normative reason for choosing particular actions stems from the idea that he must pursue his own good or flourishing. It also implies a divine state of being that humanity is able to strive toward and possibly reach.
• Happiness


  Doing well and living well, a pleasant state of mind
• There is a very general agreement that eudaimonia is living well and faring well with being happy, but people differ on what eudaimonia is
• Epicurus' view of eudaimonia


  The life of pleasure that coincides with the life of virtue. Eudaimonia is a more or less continuous experience of pleasure and freedom from pain and distress. Virtue is only instrumentally related to happiness.
• Socrates' view of eudaimonia


  Virtues such as self-control, justice, courage, wisdom, piety and related qualities of mind and soul are absolutely crucial if a person is to lead a good and happy life. Virtues guarantee a happy life Eudaimonia
• Plato's view of eudaimonia


  Eudaimonia depends on virtue (arête) which is the most crucial and dominant constituent of eudaimonia
• Pyrrho's view of eudaimonia


  The attainment of ataraxia (a state of equanimity) as a way to achieve eudaimonia. Pyrrhonist practice is for the purpose of achieving epoch.
• Dasein


  Literally means "being there", focuses on the "mode of existence"
• Eudaimonia consists of the Greek words "eu" meaning "good" and "daemon" meaning "spirit"
• Happiness


  pleasant state of mind.
• Happiness


  living well/doing well
• Seligman, Steen, Park and Peterson, 2005


  Human flourishing requires the development of attributes and social and personal levels that exhibit character strengths and virtues that are commonly agreed across different cultures
• Aristotle


  He presented the various popular conceptions of the best life for human beings; (1) a philosophical life, (2).life of pleasure and (3) a life of political activity.
• Pyrrhonism


  a school of philosophical skepticism that places the attainment of ataraxia
• Pyrrhonist practice


  for the purpose of achieving epoch
• According to Aristotle, there is an end of all the actions that we perform which we desire for itself
• Flourishing


  is the greatest good of human endeavors and that toward which all actions aim
• Aristotle


  according to him, there is an end of all the actions that we perform which we desire for itself. Flourishing is the greatest good of human endeavors and that toward which all actions aim. The good is what is good for purposeful and goal-directed entities
• Socrates

  believed that virtues such as self-control, justice, courage, wisdom, piety and related qualities of mind and soul are absolutely crucial if a person is to lead a good and happy life. Virtues guarantee a happy life Eudaimonia