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Fallenness and Flourishing (Hardcover)
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Fallenness and Flourishing (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Analytic Theology
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Fallenness and Flourishing opens with defenses of the philosophy of
pessimism, first on secular grounds and then again on distinctively
Christian grounds with reference to the fallenness of human beings.
It then details traditional Christian reasons for optimism with
which this philosophy of pessimism can be qualified. Yet even among
those who accept the general religious worldview underlying this
optimism, many nevertheless willfully resist the efforts required
to cooperate with God and instead pursue happiness and well-being
(or flourishing) on their own power. On the assumption that we can
acquire knowledge in such matters, arguments are presented in
favour of objective-list theories of well-being and the Psychic
Affirmation theory of happiness, and the question 'How are people
faring in this quest for self-achieved happiness and well-being?'
is critically investigated. The unfortunate result is that nearly
everywhere, people are failing. The causes of failure, it is
argued, are found in the noetic effects of sin-especially in
inordinate self-love and self-deception, but also in insufficient
self-love-and such failure manifests both in widespread unhappiness
and in that most misunderstood of the seven deadly sins, sloth.
After a literary tour designed to reveal the many different ways
that sloth can damage a life, Hud Hudson provides a constructive
proposal for responding to this predicament featuring the virtue of
obedience. This virtue is analysed, illustrated, and located in a
new theory of well-being.
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