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oapen-20.500.12657-593412022-11-19T03:41:02Z Human Flourishing Las Heras, Mireia Grau Grau, Marc Rofcanin, Yasin Organization HR Human Resources Art Neuro Psychology bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KJ Business & management::KJU Organizational theory & behaviour bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JM Psychology::JMJ Occupational & industrial psychology bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JM Psychology::JMM Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology This open access book presents a novel multidisciplinary perspective on the importance of human flourishing. The study of the good life or Eudaimonia has been a central concern at least since Aristotelian times. This responds to the common experience that we all seek happiness. Today, we are immersed in a new paradoxical boom, where the pursuit of happiness seems to permeate everything (books, media, organizations, talks), but at the same time, it is nowhere, or at least very difficult to achieve. In fact, it is not easy to even find a consensus regarding the meaning of the word happiness. Seligman (2011), one of the fathers of the positive psychology, confirmed that his original view the meaning he referred to was close to that of Aristotle. But, he recently confessed that he now detests the word happiness, since it is overused and has become almost meaningless. The aim of this open access book is to shed new light on human flourishing through the lenses of neurosciences and health, organizations, and arts. The novelty of this book is to offer a multi-disciplinary perspective on the importance of human flourishing in our lives. The book will examine further how different initiatives, policies and practices create opportunities for generating human flourishing. 2022-11-18T14:19:45Z 2022-11-18T14:19:45Z 2023 book ONIX_20221118_9783031097867_23 9783031097867 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/59341 eng application/pdf n/a 978-3-031-09786-7.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-031-09786-7 Springer Nature Springer International Publishing 10.1007/978-3-031-09786-7 10.1007/978-3-031-09786-7 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 eee8b52b-b5aa-4b1b-a7c0-2d4aae7e34f5 57fa922c-448b-4f4b-976f-9c422e161c86 9783031097867 Springer International Publishing 234 Cham [...] [...] open access
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This open access book presents a novel multidisciplinary perspective on the importance of human flourishing. The study of the good life or Eudaimonia has been a central concern at least since Aristotelian times. This responds to the common experience that we all seek happiness. Today, we are immersed in a new paradoxical boom, where the pursuit of happiness seems to permeate everything (books, media, organizations, talks), but at the same time, it is nowhere, or at least very difficult to achieve. In fact, it is not easy to even find a consensus regarding the meaning of the word happiness. Seligman (2011), one of the fathers of the positive psychology, confirmed that his original view the meaning he referred to was close to that of Aristotle. But, he recently confessed that he now detests the word happiness, since it is overused and has become almost meaningless. The aim of this open access book is to shed new light on human flourishing through the lenses of neurosciences and health, organizations, and arts. The novelty of this book is to offer a multi-disciplinary perspective on the importance of human flourishing in our lives. The book will examine further how different initiatives, policies and practices create opportunities for generating human flourishing.
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