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9 Enriching the New Paradigm with Maslow’s and the subjective well-being currents of thought
Abstract
I contrast the NP with the desired state to which I want it to move. The NP has not been operationalised and was conceived before being acquainted with the subjective well-being current of thought. I propose to develop an alternative integral system of total WB (AISTWB) conjoining OWB and SWB as well as WBE and WBS, that enables us to adequately value total WB (TWB) and has a cognitive-transformative aim. A long, critical description of SWB follows to which I add the critique of WB studies by Thomson, Gill, and Goodson. Maslow’s thought on N-satisfaction and self-actualising WB is recovered and his features on self-actualisers are confronted with the components of the HE in MPhA, finding a high correspondence. I conclude that self-actualising persons not only enjoy eudaimonic WB but also hedonic WB, and that hedonic SWB has a better quality when it is accompanied with the eudaimonic dimension. I conclude that N&C are insufficient as the constitutive elements of HF, and that the four elements added by Seligman in his multidimensional WB, as well as virtues and character strengths, should be included in the AISTWB.
Abstract
I contrast the NP with the desired state to which I want it to move. The NP has not been operationalised and was conceived before being acquainted with the subjective well-being current of thought. I propose to develop an alternative integral system of total WB (AISTWB) conjoining OWB and SWB as well as WBE and WBS, that enables us to adequately value total WB (TWB) and has a cognitive-transformative aim. A long, critical description of SWB follows to which I add the critique of WB studies by Thomson, Gill, and Goodson. Maslow’s thought on N-satisfaction and self-actualising WB is recovered and his features on self-actualisers are confronted with the components of the HE in MPhA, finding a high correspondence. I conclude that self-actualising persons not only enjoy eudaimonic WB but also hedonic WB, and that hedonic SWB has a better quality when it is accompanied with the eudaimonic dimension. I conclude that N&C are insufficient as the constitutive elements of HF, and that the four elements added by Seligman in his multidimensional WB, as well as virtues and character strengths, should be included in the AISTWB.
Chapters in this book
- 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
Chapters in this book
- 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
