Humanistic Wellbeing
Humanistic Wellbeing: Toward a Value-Based Science of the Good Life
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3031692918 | 333 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 7 MB
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3031692918 | 333 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 7 MB
This 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.