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Full Idea
It would be nice if I could advance the case for Eudaimonics - empirical enquiry into the nature, causes, and constituents of flourishing, …and the case for some ways of living and being as better than others.
Gist of Idea
We need Eudaimonics - the empirical study of how we should flourish
Source
Owen Flanagan (The Really Hard Problem [2007], 4 'Normative')
Book Ref
Flanagan,Owen: 'The Really Hard Problem' [MIT 2007], p.107
A Reaction
Things seem to be moving in that direction. Lots of statistics about happiness have been appearing.
| 21830 | For Darwinians, altruism is either contracts or genetics [Flanagan] |
| 21831 | Alienation is not finding what one wants, or being unable to achieve it [Flanagan] |
| 21832 | Buddhists reject God and the self, and accept suffering as key, and liberation through wisdom [Flanagan] |
| 21833 | Research suggest that we overrate conscious experience [Flanagan] |
| 21834 | Sensations may be identical to brain events, but complex mental events don't seem to be [Flanagan] |
| 21837 | Morality is normative because it identifies best practices among the normal practices [Flanagan] |
| 21835 | We need Eudaimonics - the empirical study of how we should flourish [Flanagan] |