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024 7 _a10.1007/978-3-031-69292-5
_2doi
035 9 _a(OCLCCM-CC)1499366007
035 _a(OCoLC)1499366007
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041 _aeng
049 _aMAIN
050 4 _aHN25
100 1 _aVittersø, Joar.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aHumanistic wellbeing :
_btoward a value-based science of the good life /
_cJoar Vittersø.
260 _c[n.d.]
264 1 _aCham :
_bSpringer,
_c[2025].
264 4 _c©2025.
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 _aA World of Values -- Happiness and Wellbeing -- Affect -- Life Satisfaction -- Hedonia -- Eudaimonia -- Steps Toward a Humanistic Theory of Wellbeing.
520 _aThis open access book seeks to change the way we think about happiness and the good life. It starts ambitiously by exploring how the biological question, What is life? can be integrated with the philosophical question, What is good? It ends with a radical idea for how scientific reasoning can include a value-based theory of the good life. Anchored in basic knowledge about human nature, the new humanistic theory of wellbeing suggests that a life is good to the extent that it allows us to perform our humanness well. The theory further defines a well-performed humanness as the fulfilment of three universal human needs: the need for stability, the need for change, and the need to and for care. To reach this standpoint, the author critically examines major concepts in the wellbeing literature, such as values, happiness, life satisfaction, affect, hedonia, eudaimonia, and the good life. Based on these reviews, the author argues that a science of wellbeing cannot be strictly descriptive and value-free. A life should not be considered good only because it feels good or is thought of as good for the person living it. A good life must also be committed to a universal morality. Therefore, the humanistic theory of wellbeing suggests that it is good to like ones life, but even better to like it for the right reasons.
540 _aCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
_fCC BY 4.0
_uhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
588 0 _aOnline resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 20, 2025).
650 0 _aWell-being.
_0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006001941
650 0 _aHappiness.
_0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85058807
655 0 _aelectronic books.
856 4 0 _uhttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/152098
_yFull text is available at the Directory of Open Access Books. Click here to view.
856 4 0 _uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=4141752
_yeBooks on EBSCOhost
856 4 0 _uhttps://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-69292-5
_ySpringer Nature
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