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ISBN-10 :  0192692631 

ISBN-13 :  9780192692634

Author: Andrew Briggs, Michael Reiss 

‘A careful and thoughtful provocation’ (Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury) Ambitiously placed at the intersection of scientific insights and spiritual wisdom, Human Flourishing prompts us to reflect on what constitutes a good life and the choices that can help achieve it. For thousands of years, humans have asked ‘Why we are here?’ and ‘What makes for a good life?’ At different times, different answers have held sway. Nowadays, there are more answers proposed than ever. Much of humanity still finds the ultimate answers to such questions in religion. But in countries across the globe, secular views are widely held. In any event, whether religious or secular, individuals, communities and governments still have to make decisions about what people get from life.

Human Flourishing: Scientific insight and spiritual wisdom in uncertain times 1st Table of contents:

1 Dimensions and Pillars of Human Flourishing
What do we mean by ‘human flourishing’?
The material dimension of human flourishing
The relational dimension of human flourishing
The transcendent dimension of human flourishing
The pillar of truth
The pillar of purpose
The pillar of meaning
Limits to predictability
Patterns of religious commitment
Human flourishing in an age of technology
Organization of the book
Notes
Part I Dimensions of Human Flourishing
Overview
Notes
2 The Material Dimension
Poverty
The relationship between human flourishing and the satisfaction of material needs is not straightforward
How to be happy?
Locked-in syndrome
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
What is meant by ‘human flourishing’?
‘Now’ versus ‘in one’s life to date’
Subjectivity versus objectivity
Happiness
Measuring well-being
Inequalities and well-being
Notes
3 The Relational Dimension
Solitary confinement
Loneliness
Our early relationships
Transitional objects
An evolutionary perspective on the importance of human relationships
Getting off heroin
Dunbar’s number
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone
Helping behaviour in humans
Relationships with non-humans
Pygmalion goes AI
Pets
God
Notes
4 The Transcendent Dimension
And I have felt a presence that disturbs me
Self-transcendence
Ecstasy
What can be proved about God?
Has science proved that there is nothing beyond the material world?
The Religious Experience Research Unit
Near-death experiences
Accessing the transcendent
Enchantment
A better country
The transcendent dimension of human flourishing
Notes
Part II Pillars of Human Flourishing
Overview
Notes
5 Truth
Perceptions of reality
The Matrix
Plato’s Cave
Representations of truth
Mathematical truth
Problems with mathematical knowledge
Scientific truth
Problems with knowledge in the natural sciences
Truth in the social sciences
Problems with knowledge in the social sciences
Moral truth
Religious truth
Seeking neither to tell the truth nor to lie
Postmodernism
Expectations of agreement about truth
What is truth?
Notes
6 Purpose
The direction and purpose of the Universe
The purpose of life
Helping behaviour in non-humans
On being human
Contraception
Helping behaviour
Religion and a sense of purpose
Purpose and meaning
Notes
7 Meaning
What does a message mean?
The material dimension to meaning
The relational dimension to meaning
Existentialism
The transcendent dimension to meaning
Religion
Knowing God
Measuring meaning
Am I living my life in harmony with reality?
Notes
Part III Changing contexts of Human Flourishing
Overview
Notes
8 Limits to Predictability
Living with uncertainty
The physical sciences
Chaos theory
Quantum measurement
The biological sciences
Evolutionary psychology
Sociology
Uncertainty in life and in death
Values
Notes
9 Religion and Human Flourishing
Changing patterns of religiosity
Does religion make the world a better place?
But is it true?
Life after death
Religiosity and human flourishing
Hope springs eternal
Notes
10 Human Flourishing in an Age of Technology
AI and machine learning
Wisdom and values in the use of machine learning
Gene technologies
Conventional genetic engineering
Gene therapy
Genetic enhancement
Gene synthesis
COVID-19
Notes
Conclusion Actionable Love
Overview
Note
11 Human Flourishing Fuelled by Love
Human flourishing—empirical studies
Love in action
Effective altruism
Existential threats to human flourishing
Homelessness
Love as the essence of flourishing

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