Latin Inquiry

1962 ◽  
Vol 9 (S1) ◽  
pp. 42-47
Author(s):  
T. W. Melluish
Keyword(s):  
Good Life ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
The Future ◽  
Impartial Observer ◽  
Self Examination ◽  
Uniform Change

Latin is a wedding-garment no longer de rigueur for those entering Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Utility English jeans will in future be permissible wear. Whether this will herald a uniform change throughout the schools of the country it is early yet to say. The Crowther Committee was sure that Latin was taught in many cases merely as an insurance against possible debarment from the older universities. Whatever the truth of that, Latin will stand or continue to stand in the future by its own merits. Like Justice in the early part of the Republic, stripped of its adventitious rewards it may now lend itself to an impartial reappraisal. This seems to be the occasion for another stocktaking. Hard as it is to love gadflies, we perhaps should be grateful to those who stung us into these agonies of self-examination, so essential a condition of the good life. Stirrings indeed there have been. An impartial observer might comment that if Latin is a dead language, like Virgil's ox it appears to be the centre of a good deal of activity.

The Good Life, The Examined Life, and the Embodied Life

Human Affairs ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Shusterman
Keyword(s):  
Good Life ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Philosophical Project ◽  
Self Examination

The Good Life, The Examined Life, and the Embodied LifeThe good life and the examined life have long been advocated as key philosophical goals, and they have often been closely linked together. My paper critically examines this linkage by considering arguments both for and against the value of self-examination for achieving the good life. Because somatic self-examination has been viewed as especially problematic for the philosophical project of achieving the good life, this form of self-examination will be given special attention in the paper, and its discussion will be situated within the larger issue of the extent to which the embodied life is central to the good life.

scholarly journals Understanding culture as a project

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Renata M. Leitão ◽  
Solen Roth
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Action Project ◽  
Research Action

This article argues that, in collaboration with Indigenous [and non-Western local] communities, social designers should approach “culture” not only as a form of heritage that should be preserved and transmitted, but also as a project that weaves together heritage, current material circumstances, and desirable ideas for the future. We therefore examine the notion that every culture is intrinsically oriented towards the future, representing a trajectory that links the past to a projected ideal of well-being. Thus, cultural diversity leads to numerous trajectories and distinct futures, contrary to the colonial ideology according to which only one trajectory is possible: that which adheres to the project of eurocentric modernity. Based on a participatory research action project called Tapiskwan, which focused on the aspirations of the Atikamekw Nehirowisiwok, we propose that the ultimate goal of social designers should be to nurture local communities’ capacity to (re)create their own autonomous trajectories, in pursuit of the good life as their culture defines it. 

A Process Model of Wisdom from Adversity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Ferrari ◽  
Igor Grossmann ◽  
Stephen Grimm ◽  
Julia Staffel
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Adverse Experience ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Daily Stressors ◽  
The Future

How might one measure the wisdom and its gains from adversity? To answer this question, it is essential to define the central terms. Social scientists and philosophers have defined wisdom in a number of ways (Staudinger & Glück, 2011). In the present paper, we will build on the idea that wisdom involves knowledge about how to live well, which includes knowledge of what is more or less important for well being (Grimm, 2015). From this perspective, adversity can mean any situation that is appraised by a person as a challenge to the good life (e.g., trauma, transgressions, daily stressors). Gains in wisdom would involve the learning that emerges through mastering this adversity—learning that may result in a new look on the adverse experience, including lessons for how to cope with similar adversity in the future. This point of view suggests the need for a process-oriented account of emotion regulation (Sheppes, Scheibe, Suri & Gross, 2011; Smith & Kirby, 2009) to identify conditions under which one can successfully navigate the adversity.

scholarly journals The ‘Good Life’ in Intercultural Information Ethics: A New Agenda

1970 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 26-32
Author(s):  
Pak-Hang Wong
Keyword(s):  
Good Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Information Ethics ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Right ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Intercultural Information Ethics

Current research in Intercultural Information Ethics (IIE) is preoccupied, almost exclusively, by moral and political issues concerning the right and the just (e.g., Hongladarom & Ess 2007; Ess 2008; Capurro 2008) These issues are undeniably important, and with the continuing development and diffusion of ICTs, we can only be sure more moral and political problems of similar kinds are going to emerge in the future. Yet, as important as those problems are, I want to argue that researchers‘ preoccupation with the right and the just are undesirable. I shall argue that IIE has thus far overlooked the issues pertaining to the good life (or, individual‘s well-being). IIE, I claim, should also take into account these issues. Hence, I want to propose a new agenda for IIE, i.e. the good life, in the current paper.

scholarly journals Consumption and Well-being

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Knights ◽  
John O'Neill
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Standard Assumption ◽  
Resource Substitution ◽  
The Future ◽  
Aristotelian Tradition

Environmental problems driven by unsustainable consumption are lending new importance to an ancient question: are there bounds to the goods required for a happy or flourishing life? A standard assumption in recent economics is that there are no such bounds. Many further argue that markets, technological change, and resource substitution can deliver sustainability while allowing consumption of final goods by consumers to increase. This chapter criticizes this approach and considers two much older traditions, the Epicurean and Aristotelian, which do recognize the existence of limits to the goods required for the good life. Their revival has been used to argue that consumption can be reduced without loss of well-being. This chapter argues that the promise found by environmentalists in the recent hedonic revival of the Epicurean tradition is misplaced, and that the Aristotelian tradition provides a richer account of why the future—and therefore consuming sustainably—matters to our well-being.

Tensions Between the Good Life, the Good Profession, and the Good Society

1998 ◽  
Vol 43 (10) ◽  
pp. 667-668
Author(s):  
Isaac Prilleltensky
Keyword(s):  
Good Life ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Good Society
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