Morphogenesis and Human Flourishing

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Archer, Margaret S. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Social Morphogenesis,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Medical research.; Social sciences > Philosophy.; Quality of life.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319494692
• ISSN: 2198-1604
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-49469-2
• Physical Description: VIII, 296 p. 15 illus., 4 illus. in color. online resource.

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 'relational steering', protecting and promoting a nuanced version of the good life for all. It analyses the way...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction; Margaret S. Archer
• Part I. What is Human Flourishing and On What It Depend?
• Chapter 2. Human Flourishing and Human Morphogenesis: A Critical Realist Interpretation and Critique
• Chapter 3. Some Reservations about Flourishing; Douglas V. Porpora
• Chapter 4. Reflexivity in a Just Morphogenic Society: A Sociological Contribution to Political Philosophy; Ismael Al-Amoudi
• Chapter 5. The Morphogenic Society as Source and Challenge for Human Fulfillment; Andrea M. Maccarini
• Part II. Does the Intensification of Morphogenesis Promote or Impede Eudaimonia?
• Chapter 6. Does Intensive Morphogenesis Foster Human Capacities or Liabilities?; Maragaret S. Archer
• Chapter 7. What Does a 'Good Life' Mean in a Morphogenic Society? The Viewpoint of Relational Sociology; Pierpaolo Donati
• Chapter 8. Flourishing or Fragmenting Amidst Variety: And the Digitalization of the Archive; Mark Carrigan
• Chapter 9. Corporations, Taxations and Responsibility: Practical and Onto-Analytical Issues for Morphogenesis and Eudaimonia: A Posse ad Esse?; Jaime Morgan and William Sun
• Part III. Social Institutions and the Good Life
• Chapter 10. Networks and Commons: Bureaucracy, Collegiality and Organizational Morphogenesis in the Struggles to Shape New Sharing Institutions; Emmanuel Lazega
• Chapter 11. Eudaimonic Bubbles, Social Change and the NHS; Tony Lawson
• Chapter 12. The Will to Be: Human Flourishing and the Good International Society; Colin Wright
• Chapter 13. Creating Common Good: The Global Sustainable Information Society as the Good Society; Wolfgang Hofkirchner.