Humanistic Wellbeing: Toward a Value-Based Science of the Good Life (人文福祉：走向以價值為基礎的美好生活科學)

Vittersø, Joar

Humanistic Wellbeing: Toward a Value-Based Science of the Good Life
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2025-02-18
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 362
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 3031692918
  • ISBN-13: 9783031692918

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This open access book seeks to change the way we think about happiness and the good life. It starts ambitiously by exploring how the biological question, "What is life?" can be integrated with the philosophical question, "What is good?" It ends with a radical idea for how scientific reasoning can include a value-based theory of the good life. Anchored in basic knowledge about human nature, the new humanistic theory of wellbeing suggests that a life is good to the extent that it allows us to perform our humanness well. The theory further defines a well-performed humanness as the fulfilment of three universal human needs: the need for stability, the need for change, and the need to and for care.

To reach this standpoint, the author critically examines major concepts in the wellbeing literature, such as values, happiness, life satisfaction, affect, hedonia, eudaimonia, and the good life. Based on these reviews, the author argues that a science of wellbeing cannot be strictly descriptive and value-free. A life should not be considered good only because it feels good or is thought of as good for the person living it. A good life must also be committed to a universal morality. Therefore, the humanistic theory of wellbeing suggests that it is good to like one's life, but even better to like it for the right reasons.

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這本開放存取的書籍旨在改變我們對幸福和美好生活的思考方式。它雄心勃勃地開始探討生物學問題「什麼是生命？」如何與哲學問題「什麼是好的？」相結合。最後提出一個激進的觀點，即科學推理可以包含基於價值的美好生活理論。這一新的人文主義幸福理論以對人性基本知識為基礎，認為一個生活的好壞取決於它是否能讓我們良好地展現人性。該理論進一步將良好的人性表現定義為滿足三個普遍的人類需求：穩定的需求、變化的需求，以及關懷的需求。

為了達到這一觀點，作者批判性地檢視了幸福文獻中的主要概念，如價值、幸福、生活滿意度、情感、享樂、優雅生活和美好生活。基於這些回顧，作者主張幸福的科學不能僅僅是描述性的和無價值的。生活不應該僅因為感覺良好或被認為對生活者有利而被視為美好。美好生活還必須致力於普遍的道德。因此，人文主義幸福理論認為，喜歡自己的生活是好的，但更好的情況是出於正確的理由去喜歡它。

作者簡介

Joar Vittersø is Full Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Tromsø, Norway. He holds an MS in social anthropology, an MS and a Ph.D. in social psychology, all from the University of Oslo. Vittersø's research interests include studies of conceptual developments in happiness and wellbeing, he has published extensively on topics such as life satisfaction, positive emotions, intrinsic motivation, and on the relationship between human development and well-being. He is the editor of the Handbook of Eudaimonic Well-Being. Author of more than 110 publications cited over 7500 times, and with an h-index of 45, Dr. Vittersø is a respected European researcher on human well-being and happiness. He is a former Board member of the International Positive Psychology Association, and editorial board member of Social Indicators Research and the International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology. He is the Country representative for Norway in the European Network for Positive Psychology.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Joar Vittersø 是挪威特羅姆瑟大學的社會心理學全職教授。他擁有社會人類學碩士學位、社會心理學碩士學位及博士學位，均來自奧斯陸大學。Vittersø 的研究興趣包括幸福感和福祉的概念發展研究，他在生活滿意度、正向情緒、內在動機以及人類發展與福祉之間的關係等主題上發表了大量論文。他是《Eudaimonic Well-Being 手冊》的編輯。Vittersø 博士擁有超過 110 篇被引用超過 7500 次的出版物，h-index 為 45，是一位受人尊敬的歐洲人類福祉和幸福感研究者。他曾擔任國際正向心理學協會的董事會成員，以及《社會指標研究》和《應用正向心理學國際期刊》的編輯委員會成員。他是挪威在歐洲正向心理學網絡中的國家代表。

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