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The Ontology of Well-Being in Social Policy and Welfare Practice Well-Being and the Human Condition

The Ontology of Well-Being in Social Policy and Welfare Practice : Well-Being and the Human... [Following the political and philosophical debates explored in Chap. 1, six ontological features of the human condition are identified, described and explored in this chapter, and which are central to The Ontology of Well-Being Thesis (TOWT) defended here and throughout the book. The features are, in no prioritised order, human embodiment, finiteness, sociability, cognition, evaluation, and agency. The main argument is that these features need articulating in any plausible epistemological account of well-being, concerning what we know about this phenomenon, focussing on how we establish what, in and of itself, helps a life go better. And concerning how well-being is understood normatively, and so is promoted as a social value, notably in social policy and welfare practice. The principal assumption is therefore existentialist in character – that is, well-being, while is promotable as a substantive social ideal to be enhanced for future populations, must first reflect the existential and ontological features of what and who human beings are presently, with these features reflected across a gamut of human experiences. A further claim of TOWT is that these ontological features interrelate in complex ways, producing various conflicts in the epistemology and normativity of human well-being, and how it is understood and practically applied. Significantly, conflicting experiences of time, emotion, and self-consciousness are revealed, which, it is argued, must be accommodated for in any comprehensive epistemological and normative account of human well-being, which then can be usefully applied to a range of social policies and welfare practices.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Ontology of Well-Being in Social Policy and Welfare Practice Well-Being and the Human Condition

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Springer International Publishing
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978-3-031-18141-2
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31 –61
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10.1007/978-3-031-18142-9_2
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[Following the political and philosophical debates explored in Chap. 1, six ontological features of the human condition are identified, described and explored in this chapter, and which are central to The Ontology of Well-Being Thesis (TOWT) defended here and throughout the book. The features are, in no prioritised order, human embodiment, finiteness, sociability, cognition, evaluation, and agency. The main argument is that these features need articulating in any plausible epistemological account of well-being, concerning what we know about this phenomenon, focussing on how we establish what, in and of itself, helps a life go better. And concerning how well-being is understood normatively, and so is promoted as a social value, notably in social policy and welfare practice. The principal assumption is therefore existentialist in character – that is, well-being, while is promotable as a substantive social ideal to be enhanced for future populations, must first reflect the existential and ontological features of what and who human beings are presently, with these features reflected across a gamut of human experiences. A further claim of TOWT is that these ontological features interrelate in complex ways, producing various conflicts in the epistemology and normativity of human well-being, and how it is understood and practically applied. Significantly, conflicting experiences of time, emotion, and self-consciousness are revealed, which, it is argued, must be accommodated for in any comprehensive epistemological and normative account of human well-being, which then can be usefully applied to a range of social policies and welfare practices.]

Published: Nov 12, 2022

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