A Eudaimonia no Livro I da Ética a Nicómaco

2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (26) ◽  
pp. 99-127
Author(s):  
Nuno Castanheira ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Nicomachean Ethics ◽  
Life Project ◽  
Greek Society ◽  
Objective Sense ◽  
Founding Principle ◽  
Ethical Project

The concept of eudaimonia put forward by Aristotle in the first Book of his Nicomachean Ethics reflects an attempt to synthesize and clarify a well known concept in the Greek society, in popular as well as in more restricted intellectual circles, giving it a new scope and conceptual consistency. Ordinarily translated as happiness, well-being or prosperity, this concept frequently had a subjective sense, describing the lives of those who lived well or were eudaimon; but it also had an objective sense, establishing a life conducting rule for everyone who wanted to be happy or eudaimon. In the present paper we give an account of the meaning and operative range of the concept of eudaimonia and show the eudaimonia's guiding role in the Aristotelian ethical project, namely as its founding principle and final horizon, its relations with the good and virtue, as well as with the nature of man and the generation of a new modality of being. Finally, we establish that the concept of eudaimonia is central to an ethics seen as a life project.

Psychological Resilience Provides No Independent Protection From Suicidal Risk

Crisis ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danica W. Y. Liu ◽  
A. Kate Fairweather-Schmidt ◽  
Richard Burns ◽  
Rachel M. Roberts ◽  
Kaarin J. Anstey
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Psychological Resilience ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Life Project ◽  
Resilience Factors ◽  
First Time

Abstract. Background: Little is known about the role of resilience in the likelihood of suicidal ideation (SI) over time. Aims: We examined the association between resilience and SI in a young-adult cohort over 4 years. Our objectives were to determine whether resilience was associated with SI at follow-up or, conversely, whether SI was associated with lowered resilience at follow-up. Method: Participants were selected from the Personality and Total Health (PATH) Through Life Project from Canberra and Queanbeyan, Australia, aged 28–32 years at the first time point and 32–36 at the second. Multinomial, linear, and binary regression analyses explored the association between resilience and SI over two time points. Models were adjusted for suicidality risk factors. Results: While unadjusted analyses identified associations between resilience and SI, these effects were fully explained by the inclusion of other suicidality risk factors. Conclusion: Despite strong cross-sectional associations, resilience and SI appear to be unrelated in a longitudinal context, once risk/resilience factors are controlled for. As independent indicators of psychological well-being, suicidality and resilience are essential if current status is to be captured. However, the addition of other factors (e.g., support, mastery) makes this association tenuous. Consequently, resilience per se may not be protective of SI.

Development of the Life Project Reflexivity Scale: A New Career Intervention Inventory

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 358-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annamaria Di Fabio ◽  
Jacobus Gideon Maree ◽  
Maureen E. Kenny
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Career Intervention ◽  
Life Project ◽  
Group Settings ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Dimensional Version ◽  
Italian Context

This article describes the Life Project Reflexivity Scale ( LPRS), a questionnaire constructed for use with Italian students to assess the development of reflexivity, which is increasingly vital for personal and professional progress and well-being. The instrument was administered to 502 Italian university students. A three-dimensional version of the scale was identified through exploratory factor analysis and supported by confirmatory factor analysis. Inter-item factor and scale correlations and reliability coefficients were calculated. We concluded that evidence supports the reliability and validity of the LPRS as a useful instrument for measuring life project reflexivity (people’s reflexivity regarding their future career–life–personal projects) in the Italian context. In addition to sound psychometric properties, the LPRS takes little time to administer and can be completed in large group settings with relative ease. More research is needed to more fully assess its validity and its potential for use in other countries.

scholarly journals Promoting Career Counselors’ Sustainable Career Development through the Group-based Life Construction Dialogue Intervention: “Constructing My Future Purposeful Life”

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3645
Author(s):  
Katerina Argyropoulou ◽  
Nikolaos Mouratoglou ◽  
Alexandros Stamatios Antoniou ◽  
Katerina Mikedaki ◽  
Argyro Charokopaki
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
Life Project ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Purposeful Life

Continuous professional development refers to maintaining, enhancing, and broadening individuals’ knowledge, skills, and the personal qualities required in their professional lives. The present experimental study attempts to explore the way(s) that the Life Construction intervention: “Constructing my Future Purposeful Life” contributes to career counselors’ sustainable career development. Two groups of career counselors participating in a training program delivered by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens were involved, namely, an experimental group (N = 33) that received the intervention and a control group (N = 27) that did not receive any intervention. The effectiveness of the intervention was verified through qualitative and quantitative analysis, including the calculation of effect sizes, of the data obtained through the Future Career Autobiography, and the Greek version of the Life Project Reflexivity Scale. The results indicate that the Life Construction Intervention improved career counselors’ reflexivity and self-awareness, while, concurrently, the need for practical training in contemporary interventions to support their sustainable career development is highlighted. The main conclusion refers to the fact that the career counselor needs to construct his or her own Self as a sustainable project beforehand, in order to be able to support individuals in their own Self construction and promote their well-being.

Colloquium 3 Aristotle on the Voluntariness of Vice

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-88
Author(s):  
Jay R. Elliott
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Interpretation ◽  
Nicomachean Ethics ◽  
Fundamental Idea ◽  
Two Sides ◽  
Ethical Project

Abstract In Nicomachean Ethics III.5, Aristotle argues that virtue and vice are “up to us and voluntary.” Readers have long struggled to make sense of Aristotle’s arguments in this chapter and to explain how they cohere with the rest of his ethical project. Among the most influential lines of complaint is that the argument of III.5 appears to contradict his emphasis elsewhere on the power of upbringing to shape character, beginning in childhood. Scholars have developed two main interpretive approaches to III.5, which I label “libertarian” and “compatibilist.” I argue that neither approach succeeds in removing the appearance of contradiction. I develop an alternative interpretation that reveals the coherence of Aristotle’s commitments, showing that for him the voluntariness of character and the power of upbringing are in reality two sides of the same philosophical coin. Both are grounded in his fundamental idea that virtue and vice are acquired by practice.

Engagement in musical activities

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Hallam ◽  
Andrea Creech
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Community Music ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Life Project ◽  
Music Making ◽  
The Social ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Musical Activities

This chapter sets out the findings from the Music for Life project. This explored whether participation in community music making enhanced the social, emotional and cognitive well-being of older people. 398 people aged 50+ completed questionnaires that included two measures of well-being, prior to and following nine months of active engagement with music. A control group (N=102) completed the same measures. In- depth interviews were carried out with participants, observations of musical activities, focus groups and interviews with the music facilitators. Higher scores on the measures of well-being were found consistently amongst the music participants, in comparison with the control group. Interviews revealed that music participants attributed significant social, emotional and health benefits to their music making.

scholarly journals The resignification as part of logotherapy, for the well-being of young people in a situation of addiction annexation

2020 ◽  
pp. 15-27
Author(s):  
Luz María Cejas-Leyva ◽  
Laura Araceli Calderón Palencia ◽  
Jesús Salvador Villazana Martínez ◽  
Eréndira Hernández-Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Young People ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
Emotional Skills ◽  
Life Project ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Capacity For Change ◽  
Addiction Drug

Objective: Identify the self-perception of young people in a situation of addiction, drug use and the meaning of life, through a workshop focused on logotherapy. Methodology: Qualitative research, with which in addition to the collection of theoretical information on logotherapy and resignification; Data was collected from young people in a situation of addiction, participants of the workshop "The resignification of addiction" through a focus group conducted by FEIDEP specialists. Information that allowed contrasting data in the sections of results and conclusions. Contribución Contribution: Categories were elaborated that reveal the personal interpretation of the prevailing reality regarding the situation that young people live in a situation of addiction annexation, as well as the resignification of it by raising awareness of the possibility of freedom to choose through logotherapy. To achieve the above, the young participants externalized resources that enable a life project based on the capacity for change, motivations, attitudes and emotional skills, to achieve a situation of greater well-being.

scholarly journals The Influence of Herodotus on the Practical Philosophy of Aristotle

Labyrinth ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 104
Author(s):  
Dimka Gicheva-Gocheva
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Ethical Theory ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Practical Philosophy ◽  
Nicomachean Ethics ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Republic ◽  
City State

The approach of this paper is a retrospective one. It is an attempt to show that many important ideas of Herodotus, a great ancestor of Aristotle, have influenced his practical philosophy. The paper focuses specially on several topics from the Histories of Herodotus, which have found a resonance in the Nicomachean ethics and in the Politics of Aristotle. The main ones in respect of the ethical theory are: the different forms of justice and the just as for example the super-human justice, the just in the family relations, the judicial just and the just in the polis or the larger human community. Book Epsilon of the Nicomachean Ethics is indebted to Herodotus in several points. In respect of Aristotles' political theory, there are two topics in the History of Herodotus which deserve a special interest: firstly, the conversation of the three noble Persians, who discuss the six basic types of political order and organization of power-and-submission in a state or city-state (in book ІІІ, 80-82); this becomes a paradigm for the next typologies of Plato (in the Republic and the Statesman) and Aristotle (in the Politics); secondly, the importance of personal freedom, the equity of the speaking (discussing?) men on the agora, and the supremacy of law for the well-being of any community and its peaceful future. The legacy of Herodotus is obvious in many anthropological and ethical concepts of Aristotle, especially in his most read and quoted ethical writing and in his Politics

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