Handbook of Eudaimonic Well-Being

1. The Most Important Idea in the World: An Introduction, Joar Vittersø.- PART I.  Philosophical Eudaimonism.- 2. The Philosophical Basis of Eudaimonic Psychology, Dan Haybron.- 3. Ethics and Eudaimonic Wellbeing, Johannes Hirata.- 4. Aristotle on Eudaimonia: On the Virtue of Returning to the Source, Blaine Fowers.- 5. Conceptual Challenges for a Science of Eudaimonic Wellbeing, Lorraine Besser.- PART II. Identifying the Elements of Psychological Eudaimonics.- 6.Beautiful Ideas and the Scientific Enterprise: Sources of Intellectual Vitality in Research on Eudaimonic Well-Being, Carol Ryff.- 7. Eudaimonia as a Way of Living: Connecting Aristotle with Self-Determination Theory, Richard Ryan and Frank Martela.- 8. Internal Motivation, Instrumental Motivation, and Eudaimonia, Barry Schwartz and Amy Wrzesniewski.- 9. Eudaimonia and Wisdom, Alan Law and Ursula Staudinger.- 10.Eudaimonic Growth: The Development of the Goods in Personhood (or: Cultivating a Good Life Story), Jack Bauer.- 11. Hedonia, Eudaimonia, and Meaning: Me versus Us, Fleeting versus Enduring, Michael F. Steger.- 12. The Eudaimonics of Positive Emotions, Barbara Fredrickson.- 13. On the Synergy between Hedonia and Eudaimonia: The Role of Passion, Bob Vallerand.- 14.The Eudaimonics of Self-Actualization, Rebecca J. Schlegel, Joshua Hicks and Andrew Christy.- 15. Eudaimonic and Hedonic Orientations: Theoretical Considerations and Research Findings, Veronika Huta.- 16. Genes, Environments and Core Features of Eudaimonic Wellbeing, Espen Røysamb and Ragnhild Bang Nes.- 17. The Feeling of Excellent Functioning: Hedonic and Eudaimonic Emotions, Joar Vittersø.- 18. Measuring Eudaimonic Wellbeing, Carmel Proctor and Roger Tweed.- PART III. Living Eudaimonically.- 19. Well-Doing: Personal Projects and the Social Ecology of Flourishing, Brian Little.- 20.The Eudaimonics of Human Strengths: The Relations Between Character Strengths and Well-Being, Claudia Harzer.- 21. The Mind of the "Happy Warrior": Eudaimonia, Awe, and the Search for Meaning in Life, Alexander Danvers, Makenzie  O'Neil and Michelle Shiota.- 22. The Eudaimonia of Heroism: Sublime Actualization through the Embodiment of Virtue, Zeno Franco, Olivia Efthimiou and Philip G. Zimbardo.- 23.Health and Eudaimonic Wellbeing: Exploring the Promise of Positive Well-Being and Healthier Living, Jay Kimiecik.- 24. Eudaimonia, Aging, and Health:  A Review of Underlying Mechanisms, Anthony Ong and Alicia Patterson.- 25.Wholeness and Holiness: The Spiritual Dimension of Eudaimonics, Kenneth Pargament, Serena Wong and Julie Exline.- 26. Positive Interventions that Erode the Hedonic and Eudaimonic Divide to Promote Lasting Happiness, Dianne Vella-Brodrick.- PART IV. Eudaimonia and the Society.- 27. Eudaimonia and Culture: The Anthropology of Virtue, Francis Mckay.- 28. Eudaimonic Wellbeing: A Gendered Perspective, Leah Ferguson and Katie Gunnell.- 29. Sentimental Hedonism: Pleasure, Purpose, and Public PolicyPaul Dolan and Laura Kudrna.- 30. The Eudaimonics of Education, Hans Henrik Knoop.- 31. Developing Well-Being and Capabilities As a Goal of Higher Education: A Thought-Piece on Educating the Whole Student, Eranda Jayawickreme and Sara Dahill-Brown.- 32. Developing a Eudaimonia Research Agenda in Travel and Tourism, M. Joseph Sirgy and Muzaffer Uysal.- 33.Hedonism, Eudaimonia, and the Serious Leisure Perspective, Robert A. Stebbins.- 34. Eudaimonia and "Species Being": a Marxist Perspective, Hartley Dean.- PART V.  Against Eudaimonia.-  35. Socrates Dissatisfaction, A Happiness Arms Race, And the Trouble with Eudaimonic Well-being, Sarah J. Ward and Laura King.- 36. Putting Eudaimonia in its Place (On the Predictor, not the Outcome, Side of the Equation), Kennon M. Sheldon.- 37. Social Planning Without Bentham or Aristotle: Towards Dignified and Socially Engaged Wellbeing, Neil Thin.- Epilogue.- 38. The Future of Eudaimonic Well-Being:  Subjectivism, Objectivism and the Lump Under the Carpet, Valerie Tiberius.... Mehr