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Introduction
Abstract
After describing the contents of the book and its structure, the introduction states that the book provides a new/better reply to the question on the constitutive element of the good-life/good-society, which is founded on Marxian Philosophical Anthropology (MPhA) as formulated by Marx and György Márkus: centred around humans’ life-activity: work understood as a mediated-need-satisfaction activity and as propeller of the development of human capacities. The new reply is holistic, unbounded by any discipline or orthodoxy, although it is a Marxian-inspired approach it is also completely transdisciplinary as it is enhanced by modern/contemporary sciences, and borrows freely from different schools of thought. It is founded on a critical study of HN and leans on a holistic conceptual map of the need-satisfaction process, comprised by interrelated sets of N, satisfiers, and well-being sources. It is contrasted with two contemporary vigorous currents of thought: subjective well-being (SWB) and the one presented in Thomson, Gill, and Goodson’s book (2021). Before adopting MPhA as its positive foundation, it is submitted to two tests: vis-à-vis contemporary palaeoanthropology and Hurka’s book Perfectionism. The introduction continues the description of the rest of the book.
Abstract
After describing the contents of the book and its structure, the introduction states that the book provides a new/better reply to the question on the constitutive element of the good-life/good-society, which is founded on Marxian Philosophical Anthropology (MPhA) as formulated by Marx and György Márkus: centred around humans’ life-activity: work understood as a mediated-need-satisfaction activity and as propeller of the development of human capacities. The new reply is holistic, unbounded by any discipline or orthodoxy, although it is a Marxian-inspired approach it is also completely transdisciplinary as it is enhanced by modern/contemporary sciences, and borrows freely from different schools of thought. It is founded on a critical study of HN and leans on a holistic conceptual map of the need-satisfaction process, comprised by interrelated sets of N, satisfiers, and well-being sources. It is contrasted with two contemporary vigorous currents of thought: subjective well-being (SWB) and the one presented in Thomson, Gill, and Goodson’s book (2021). Before adopting MPhA as its positive foundation, it is submitted to two tests: vis-à-vis contemporary palaeoanthropology and Hurka’s book Perfectionism. The introduction continues the description of the rest of the book.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures and tables vii
- List of abbreviations viii
- Acknowledgements xii
- Foreword xv
- Introduction 1
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Negative and positive bases of the new paradigm
- Negative bases: a synthesis of the critique of the political economy of poverty (CPEP) 11
- Positive bases: Marxian Philosophical Anthropology I – work and the human essence 30
- Positive bases: Marxian Philosophical Anthropology II – human essence and history 45
- Two tests of Marx’s Philosophical Anthropology (MPhA) 64
- Positive bases of the New Paradigm II: concepts and theories of human needs 90
- Comparative analysis of human needs’ theories 109
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The new paradigm: perspectives for its development
- A new approach to poverty and human flourishing 129
- Development challenges to the new approach to poverty and human flourishing 147
- Enriching the New Paradigm with Maslow’s and the subjective well-being currents of thought 180
- Thomson, Gill, and Goodson’s Happiness, Flourishing and the Good Life: challenging the Flourishing/Well-being approaches 217
- Final remarks 229
- References 232
- Index 242
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures and tables vii
- List of abbreviations viii
- Acknowledgements xii
- Foreword xv
- Introduction 1
-
Negative and positive bases of the new paradigm
- Negative bases: a synthesis of the critique of the political economy of poverty (CPEP) 11
- Positive bases: Marxian Philosophical Anthropology I – work and the human essence 30
- Positive bases: Marxian Philosophical Anthropology II – human essence and history 45
- Two tests of Marx’s Philosophical Anthropology (MPhA) 64
- Positive bases of the New Paradigm II: concepts and theories of human needs 90
- Comparative analysis of human needs’ theories 109
-
The new paradigm: perspectives for its development
- A new approach to poverty and human flourishing 129
- Development challenges to the new approach to poverty and human flourishing 147
- Enriching the New Paradigm with Maslow’s and the subjective well-being currents of thought 180
- Thomson, Gill, and Goodson’s Happiness, Flourishing and the Good Life: challenging the Flourishing/Well-being approaches 217
- Final remarks 229
- References 232
- Index 242
