Morphogenesis and human flourishing. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Margaret S. Archer, editor.
• Editors: Archer, Margaret S (Margaret Scotford)
• Contents: Acknowledgement to the Independent Social Research Foundation; Contents; 1 Introduction: Has a Morphogenic Society Arrived?; Preface; Summary Characteristics of Morphogenic Society; Morphogenesis and Eudaimonia; Why Morphogenesis Does Not Entail Eudaimonia; Equality, Participation and Eudaimonia; Networking Eudaimonia: The Processes of Participation; Conclusion; References; 2 Human Flourishing and Human Morphogenesis: A Critical Realist Interpretation and Critique; Human Flourishing I: Aristotelian Foundations; Human Flourishing II: Critical Realist Foundations and Elaborations. Human Morphogenesis: The Transhumanist ChallengeMorphogenesis and Metaethics; References; 3 Some Reservations About Flourishing; Flourishing and the Case Against Value Neutrality in the Social Sciences; So What's My Issue?; So What Words Are Better?; Is Our Current Trajectory Toward Flourishing?; References; 4 Reflexivity in a Just Morphogenic Society: A Sociological Contribution to Political Philosophy; Introduction: Reflexivity, Side-Lined in Public Debates and Political Philosophy?; The Contribution of Sociological Theory to Political Philosophy. Morphogenic Society: What It Is and Why It MattersWhat Morphogenic Society Is and What It Is Not; The Dimensions of Social Morphogenesis; Are We Currently Living in a Morphogenic Society?; Normative Problems in Morphogenic Societies; Social Reflexivity: How Should I Make My Way Through the World?; Modes of Social Reflexivity: A Very Brief Refresher; The Morphostatic Assumptions of Theories of Justice; The Meagre Assumptions of Theories of Justice on Social Reflexivity; Should Social Reflexivity Be Listed as a Central Human Capability? Injustice Resulting from Unequal Social Reflexivity in Morphogenic SocietyOrganisations Fostering Social Reflexivity in a Just Morphogenic Society; Political Reflexivity: Steering Society Together; What Is Political Reflexivity?; Political Reflexivity vs Social Reflexivity; Political Reflexivity vs Leadership; Some of the Capabilities Needed for Political Reflexivity; Why Political Reflexivity Matters; Why Political Reflexivity Matters All the More in Morphogenic Society?; What Organisations May Help Fostering Political Reflexivity?; Conclusion; References. 5 The Morphogenic Society as Source and Challenge for Human Fulfillment`Good Life' After Modernity? A Missing Link and the Semantics of Decadence; The Morphogenic Society and Its Challenges to Human Flourishing; Skills, Cooperation, and Transcendence: Emergent Forms of the Human Good in the Morphogenic Society; Conclusion. Being (Fulfilled as) Human in the Morphogenic Society; References; 6 Does Intensive Morphogenesis Foster Human Capacities or Liabilities?; Introduction; Human Thriving in the New Millennium; Current Forms of Global Morphogenesis and Their Relationship to Human Thriving.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 301; Social sciences; Social change; Social structure; Sociology; Social sciences -- Philosophy; Quality of Life -- Research; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General; Social change; Social structure; Sociology; Philosophy -- Movements -- General; Social & political philosophy; Social issues & processes; Social theory; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319494692; 3319494694
• Related ISBNs: 9783319494685; 3319494686
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 05, 2017).
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