Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

The Ontology of Well-Being in Social Policy and Welfare Practice Explanatory and Purpose-Based Approaches to Pluralistic Understandings of Well-Being

The Ontology of Well-Being in Social Policy and Welfare Practice : Explanatory and Purpose-Based... [This chapter adds philosophical interpretation to the book’s central themes, derived from The Ontology of Well-Being Thesis (TOWT) and defended throughout the book, so as to understand further how well-being might be better conceptualised and promoted. The main argument, to be developed in Chap. 9 the final chapter, is based on three assertions defended here. First, there is a distinction between, what is called, explanatory and purpose-based approaches to understanding well-being and its promotion in social policy and welfare practice. These approaches reflect two very different accounts of ontology, epistemology, and normativity, which have been uncovered and explored. Second, without siding with one over the other, a pluralist response is recommended, arguing that both the explanatory and purpose based approaches should be promoted simultaneously. The main claim is that this pluralist response underpins a fully articulated understanding of TOWT, helping to make better sense of debates in social policy and welfare practice which intend to enhance well-being for populations. Third, a pluralist response also claims that the dichotomy between ‘subjective’ and ‘objective’ categories of well-being, while can be important to maintain politically, at least in certain circumstances, is a distinction that can break down, or become very blurred, philosophically speaking. As argued here and throughout the book, philosophically a false dichotomy between these categories of well-being is revealed when examining complex and conflicting human experiences, and particularly if the six ontological features of the human condition identified in TOWT and in Chap. 2, are fully recognised and accommodated.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Ontology of Well-Being in Social Policy and Welfare Practice Explanatory and Purpose-Based Approaches to Pluralistic Understandings of Well-Being

Download PDF
26 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/springer-journals/the-ontology-of-well-being-in-social-policy-and-welfare-practice-bXKlggnU7h

References (0)

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
ISBN
978-3-031-18141-2
Pages
197 –223
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-18142-9_8
Publisher site
See Chapter on Publisher Site

Abstract

[This chapter adds philosophical interpretation to the book’s central themes, derived from The Ontology of Well-Being Thesis (TOWT) and defended throughout the book, so as to understand further how well-being might be better conceptualised and promoted. The main argument, to be developed in Chap. 9 the final chapter, is based on three assertions defended here. First, there is a distinction between, what is called, explanatory and purpose-based approaches to understanding well-being and its promotion in social policy and welfare practice. These approaches reflect two very different accounts of ontology, epistemology, and normativity, which have been uncovered and explored. Second, without siding with one over the other, a pluralist response is recommended, arguing that both the explanatory and purpose based approaches should be promoted simultaneously. The main claim is that this pluralist response underpins a fully articulated understanding of TOWT, helping to make better sense of debates in social policy and welfare practice which intend to enhance well-being for populations. Third, a pluralist response also claims that the dichotomy between ‘subjective’ and ‘objective’ categories of well-being, while can be important to maintain politically, at least in certain circumstances, is a distinction that can break down, or become very blurred, philosophically speaking. As argued here and throughout the book, philosophically a false dichotomy between these categories of well-being is revealed when examining complex and conflicting human experiences, and particularly if the six ontological features of the human condition identified in TOWT and in Chap. 2, are fully recognised and accommodated.]

Published: Nov 12, 2022

There are no references for this article.