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Morphogenesis and Human Flourishing

✍ Scribed by Margaret S. Archer (eds.)


Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Year
2017
Tongue
English
Leaves
296
Series
Social Morphogenesis
Edition
1
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


This book, the last volume in the Social Morphogenesis series, examines whether or not a Morphogenic society can foster new modes of human relations that could exercise a form of β€˜relational steering’, protecting and promoting a nuanced version of the good life for all. It analyses the way in which the intensification of morphogenesis and the diminishing of morphostasis impact upon human flourishing. The book links intensified morphogenesis to promoting human flourishing based on the assumption that new opportunities open up novel experiences, skills, and modes of communication that appeal to talents previously lacking any outlet or recognition. It proposes that equality of opportunity would increase as ascribed characteristics diminished in importance, and it could be maintained as the notion of achievement continued to diversify. Digitalization has opened the cultural β€˜archive’ for more to explore and, as it expands exponentially, so do new complementary compatibilities whose development foster yet further opportunities. If more people can do more of what they do best, these represent stepping stones towards the β€˜good life’ for more of them.

✦ Table of Contents


Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction: Has a Morphogenic Society Arrived?....Pages 1-27
Human Flourishing and Human Morphogenesis: A Critical Realist Interpretation and Critique....Pages 29-43
Some Reservations About Flourishing....Pages 45-61
Reflexivity in a Just Morphogenic Society: A Sociological Contribution to Political Philosophy....Pages 63-91
The Morphogenic Society as Source and Challenge for Human Fulfillment....Pages 93-114
Does Intensive Morphogenesis Foster Human Capacities or Liabilities?....Pages 115-135
What Does a β€˜Good Life’ Mean in a Morphogenic Society? The Viewpoint of Relational Sociology....Pages 137-161
Flourishing or Fragmenting Amidst Variety: And the Digitalization of the Archive....Pages 163-183
Corporations, Taxation and Responsibility: Practical and Onto-Analytical Issues for Morphogensis and Eudaimonia – A posse ad esse?....Pages 185-210
Networks and Commons: Bureaucracy, Collegiality and Organizational Morphogenesis in the Struggles to Shape Collective Responsibility in New Sharing Institutions....Pages 211-237
Eudaimonic Bubbles, Social Change and the NHS....Pages 239-260
The Will to Be: Human Flourishing and the Good International Society....Pages 261-276
Creating Common Good: The Global Sustainable Information Society as the Good Society....Pages 277-296

✦ Subjects


Social Theory;Philosophy of the Social Sciences;Quality of Life Research


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