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Peace in Motion; John Dewey and the Aesthetics of Well-Being

by Yoram Lubling, Eric Evans

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm

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In this book Yoram Lubling and Eric Evans offer a Deweyan reconstruction of our philosophical understanding of well-being. They begin with Dewey's critique of the philosophical fallacy to examine the legitimacy and value of theories of well-being offered by traditional philosophy. However, such theories fail to provide an authentic account of well-being due to a false understanding of experience as either epistemic or cognitive. Next, using Dewey's theory of experience, they reconstruct happiness as the target for evaluation of well-being. This leads them to reject the traditional view of a private encapsulated self, and to offer in its place a transactionally situated self which is an embodied, enculturated agent. Through their emphasis on the importance of the qualitative aspects of Dewey's understanding of a situation, the pervasive quality of the situation emerges as the most plausible criterion for the evaluation of well-being. The authors use Dewey's theories of inquiry, ethics, value and art to establish the naturalistic conditions under which such pervasive quality enters into a situation as either settled or unsettled, in other words, as peace in motion. Consequently, a problematic situation becomes the primary condition under which all inquiry initiates whether it is in the context of science, ethics, values, art or ordinary living. Lubling and Evans conclude that a Deweyan account of well-being involves embodied knowing instead of the traditional view of cognitive knowledge. By using such an account, it is possible to explain the conditions and mechanisms under which well-being contributes to the enlargement and enrichment of individual and collective human experience.
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  • Authors

    Yoram Lubling +1

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi

  • Published

    January 2016

  • Weight

    532g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9781433121234

  • ISBN-10

    1433121239

  • Eden Code

    5318238

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