Freedom, Progress, and Human Flourishing
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2021
Hamilton Books (Verlag)
978-0-7618-7266-5 (ISBN)
Hamilton Books (Verlag)
978-0-7618-7266-5 (ISBN)
In this book, Winton Bastes discusses the relationships between freedom, progress, and human flourishing. Bates asserts that freedom enables individuals to flourish in different ways without colliding, fosters progress, allows for a growth of opportunities, and supports personal development by enabling individuals to exercise self-direction.
What does it mean to be a flourishing human in a Western liberal democracy in the twenty-first century? In Freedom, Progress, and Human Flourishing, Winton Bates aims to provide a better framework for thinking about the relationship between freedom, progress, and human flourishing. Bates asserts that freedom enables individuals to flourish in different ways without colliding, allows for a growth of opportunities, and supports personal development by enabling individuals to exercise self-direction. The importance of self-direction is a central theme in the book, and Bates explores throughout why wise and well-informed self-direction is integral to flourishing because it helps individuals attain health and longevity, positive human relationships, psychological well-being, and an ability to live in harmony with nature.
What does it mean to be a flourishing human in a Western liberal democracy in the twenty-first century? In Freedom, Progress, and Human Flourishing, Winton Bates aims to provide a better framework for thinking about the relationship between freedom, progress, and human flourishing. Bates asserts that freedom enables individuals to flourish in different ways without colliding, allows for a growth of opportunities, and supports personal development by enabling individuals to exercise self-direction. The importance of self-direction is a central theme in the book, and Bates explores throughout why wise and well-informed self-direction is integral to flourishing because it helps individuals attain health and longevity, positive human relationships, psychological well-being, and an ability to live in harmony with nature.
Winton Russell Bates is an Australian economist, with 50 years of work experience on public policy issues. He writes a blog titled, “Freedom and Flourishing.”
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Part I: Freedom
Chapter 2: Why Freedom?
Chapter 3: Evolution of Ideas about Freedom
Part II: Progress
Chapter 4: The Meaning of Progress
Chapter 5: The Drivers of Progress
Chapter 6: Will Progress Continue?
Part III: Human flourishing
Chapter 7: The Challenge of Self-Direction
Chapter 8: Personal Development
Chapter 9: The Evolving Context of Individual Flourishing
Chapter 10: Conclusions
Appendix
References
Index
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 2 b/w photos; |
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 154 x 218 mm |
| Gewicht | 372 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7618-7266-3 / 0761872663 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7618-7266-5 / 9780761872665 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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