gary e. davis
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gary e. davis |
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“Deep and lasting happiness. Thriving. Self-actualization, self-fulfillment, and the fullest development of opportunities, interests, aims, and talents. Lives that grow, bloom, and flower. Prosperous, lush, and exuberant lives. Lives in top form and on a roll. Lives marked by peak experiences and lots of joy. Good lives. Well-being. Days and years and decades that are meaningful, purposeful, and difference-making. Lives that matter and feel like they matter. Flourishing. Characteristic and continuous flourishing. Genuinely flourishing lives and genuinely flourishing societies.” |
| first paragraph of the “Editor’s Introduction,” Philosophy and Human Flourishing, 2022, p. 1 |
flourishing as fulfilling enjoyment -|- Sept. 24, 2022 |
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| This is a close reading of a leading researcher’s (Alan S. Waterman’s) formally-synoptic overview of the “eudaimonic” (neo-Aristotelian) approach to being well. As close reading, it may seem a little tedious, but it’s the formal basis for its follow-up gathering of my own themes from this reading, “better self-enabling for better humanity we share,” which can be read usefully without first reading my reading of Waterman. This other-oriented approach to developing themes—normal scholarship—begins a more-formal approach to my Project. Discussions below are part of the Project’s more-informal era. |
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“love” in empirical research -|- October 2022 |
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| A good sense of ordinary understandings of “love” can be important for later understanding its congruence with higher, philological senses of love. |
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“being well” in relation to “well-being” -|- March 16, 2020 |
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| Most persons have no overt notion of being well other than “to live well” or to embody “well-being.” |
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aspects of being well... -|- February 2019 |
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| ...that I want to highlight as background for future topics. This project indicates 23 topics, some briefly as sketched themes, others discussed some; and a few topics are not yet discussed at all, yet are very important for later. The sketched themes will be made into developed topics, the discussed topics will be elaborated, and the named, undiscussed topics will be developed and discussed. For anyone, I suppose, the most important aspects of being well at least implicitly anticipate gaining a wholly flourishing life. |
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authentic self determination -|- August 2020 |
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| Hope for more goodness springs from love in resilience for who we want to be relative to ideals. This is part of a prospective venture relative to the 2020 Democratic National Convention. |
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| aspiration -|- Sept 2020 | ||||
| belonging -|- Sept 2020 | ||||
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reliable intuition and thankfulness -|- Sept 2020 |
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genuine interpersonal life -|- August 2020 |
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| It’s about appreciating importances aptly in mutual interaction. This continues prospecting in light of the 2020 DNC. |
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| living genuinely -|- Sept 2020 |
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recent, relevant pages/postings |
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| • being well during a pandemic -|- May 2020 |
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Relevant new material will be listed here and, for a week or so, at the “new in site” point
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