The Philosophical Basis of Eudaimonic Psychology

Haybron, Daniel M.

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“…Eudaimonic motivations on the other hand express the human desire to live a complete, connected, and meaningful life (MacIntyre 1985, Ryan andDeci 2001), which is deeply different from desiring perpetual hedonic happiness (O'Neill 1992(O'Neill , 2002. The meaningful life (eudaimonia) is a practice-oriented ethical, social, cultural, and psychological concept (Annas 2002, May 2010, Badhwar 2014, Haybron 2016, Schwartz and Wrzesniewski 2016. It is a narrative concept because people desire and create a coherent, sense-making story of self and community.…”

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confidence: 99%

Keeping the land: indigenous communities’ struggle over land use and sustainable forest management in Kalimantan, Indonesia

Yuliani¹,

Jong²,

Knippenberg³

et al. 2018

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Despite the great emphasis on sustainable forest management in the 1998 Indonesian reform movement, deforestation has only accelerated since then, with Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) exhibiting the highest rate of forest loss. Some forested areas have, however, been preserved by local communities. We investigate how and why two of these communities in Kapuas Hulu district, West Kalimantan, have managed to maintain their forests against the pressures of illegal logging and conversion to oil palm plantations. One village community had the capacity to act on its own, while the other needed additional capacity through intercommunity collaboration. Motivations behind these villages' decisions were both economic and eudaimonic; their desire for meaningful lives related to the community and environment and to past and future generations. The findings enrich the literature on land use change because description and analysis of successful resistance against logging and oil palm is still rare. As such, the findings offer a different way to understand and interrogate the challenges confronting present-day forest communities in Kalimantan and beyond, standing out against the mainstream impression that communities are still powerless or unwilling to resist the short-term economic lures. We also refer briefly to the environmental justice perspective.

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Keeping the land: indigenous communities’ struggle over land use and sustainable forest management in Kalimantan, Indonesia

Yuliani¹,

Jong²,

Knippenberg³

et al. 2018

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“…Thankfully, the ranks of empirically-minded philosophers interested in well-being are swelling (e.g., Alexandrova, 2017;Haybron, 2016;Tiberius, 2013). Heather Douglas, a philosopher of science, humorously notes that ' [o]bjectivity is one of the most frequently invoked yet vaguely defined concepts ' (2007, p. 131).…”

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Positive psychology is value-laden—It’s time to embrace it

Prinzing

2020

The Journal of Positive Psychology

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Evaluative claims and assumptions are ubiquitous in positive psychology. Some will deny this. But such disavowals are belied by the literature. Some will consider the presence of evaluative claims a problem and hope to root them out. But this is a mistake. If positive psychology is to live up to its raison d'être-to be the scientific study of the psychological components of human flourishing or well-being-it must make evaluative claims. Well-being consists in those things that are good for us, that make life go well. Thus, one cannot investigate this topic without making claims about what is good for people and what they have reason to do. It's time, therefore, to embrace the fact that positive psychology is value-laden. Doing so would benefit the field by allowing for more rigorous theorizing, and-perhaps counterintuitively-increasing the field's objectivity.

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“…Almost each of the authors of the recent 38-chapter volume on eudaimonic well-being (Vittersø, 2016a) positioned (implicitly or explicitly) themselves in relation to Aristotle's original ideas. Several of them connected excellence/virtue with eudaimonia (Fowers, 2016;Haybron, 2016;Hirata, 2016;Proctor & Tweed, 2016;Schwartz & Wrzesniewski, 2016;Steger, 2016), with Hybron (2016) observing "it is odd that neither "virtue" nor "excellence" makes its way into most eudaimonic scales" (p. 49). What is important in these views is the conceptualization of hedonia and eudaimonia as actions motivated to serve primarily "me" or "us", respectively.…”

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Teaching a Holistic, Harmonious and Internal Motivational Concept of Excellence to Promote Olympic Ideals, Health and Well-Being for All

Παπαϊωάννου

2017

Journal of Teaching in Physical Education

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Based on recent trends in positive psychology, on ancient Greek sport literature and particularly on Aristotle’s philosophy, the holistic, harmonious and internal motivational components of excellence and their implications for students’ motivation for physical activity, health and well-being are presented. While modern motivational theories and research have partly addressed the holistic and internal motivational components of excellence, they have yet to address its harmonious part. In this article it is explained why all three components of excellence are required to promote eudaimonic well-being, which is the ultimate aim of Olympism. It is argued also that the conceptualization of hedonic-eudaimonic well-being should be primarily based on the “me” versus “us” meaning. While current physical activity experiences more often reflect a hedonistic perspective, to promote health and well-being for all, an eudaimonic perspective in teaching in physical education and youth sport is needed. This should primarily focus on the promotion of Olympic ideals, such as excellence, friendship, and respect. These three ideals and well-being are all very much interconnected, when all three components of excellence exist in excess. To promote excellence, Olympic ideals, and well-being, the core ideas of an educational philosophy promoting excellence in physical education and youth sport are presented.

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The Philosophical Basis of Eudaimonic Psychology

Cited by 64 publications

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Keeping the land: indigenous communities’ struggle over land use and sustainable forest management in Kalimantan, Indonesia

Keeping the land: indigenous communities’ struggle over land use and sustainable forest management in Kalimantan, Indonesia

Positive psychology is value-laden—It’s time to embrace it

Teaching a Holistic, Harmonious and Internal Motivational Concept of Excellence to Promote Olympic Ideals, Health and Well-Being for All

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Keeping the land: indigenous communities&#8217; struggle over land use and sustainable forest management in Kalimantan, Indonesia

Keeping the land: indigenous communities&#8217; struggle over land use and sustainable forest management in Kalimantan, Indonesia

Positive psychology is value-laden—It’s time to embrace it

Teaching a Holistic, Harmonious and Internal Motivational Concept of Excellence to Promote Olympic Ideals, Health and Well-Being for All

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Keeping the land: indigenous communities’ struggle over land use and sustainable forest management in Kalimantan, Indonesia

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