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The Politics of Well-Being - Towards a More Ethical World (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Well-Being - Towards a More Ethical World (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
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The Politics of Well-Being argues that the relationship between
well-being and ethical life has been overlooked. The more specific
argument of the book is that ethical life requires political
engagement, and the emergence of a society committed to critical
thinking. It is argued that these conditions allow for our
ordination and confirmation as ethical subjects. While well-being
can be experienced in different ways, it is claimed that, after
experience of ethical life, a more sustainable form of it is
revealed to us, a form which we would be drawn to preserve, a form
which can be constituted as an object of hope. While the book draws
on philosophical themes, its main focus is political. This is
because its primary objective is to identify and to examine what
needs to be done in order to realise ethical life. Its main focus
in this respect is the identification and examination of the
barriers which need to be overcome if ethical life is to be
realised. It is acknowledged that this will not be an easy task.
Indeed, it may be an impossible task. However, despite these
barriers, and despite the dark days we are living through, the book
is a call to hope rather than a surrender to despair. This book
will be of interest to students of politics, psychology, cultural
studies, philosophy, and sociology, as well as anyone else
interested in exploring new ideas about how the make the world a
better place.
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