Well-Being as Value Fulfillment: How We Can Help Each Other to Live Well

ISBN-13: 9780192894687 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 232 str.

Profe Valerie (Professor of Philosophy and Department Chair

Recenzje

Well-Being as Value Fulfillment is a pensive look at the fraught topic of helping our friends--a topic so quotidian that it would be at home on a flyer in the waiting room of a doctor's office. Yet Tiberius expounds on the complexity that often leaves us mired in conflicts as we try to help--and fail. She explains with sensitivity and verbosity the importance of coming to understand what matters to ourselves and others, and being alert enough to respect the difference between the two

O autorze

Valerie Tiberius is the Paul W. Frenzel Chair in Liberal Arts and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Minnesota. Her work explores the ways in which philosophy and psychology can both contribute to the study of well-being and virtue. She is the author of The Reflective Life: Living Wisely With Our Limits (Oxford, 2008), and Moral Psychology: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2015). She has also published numerous articles on the topics of virtue, well-being, and the relationship between positive psychology and ethics, and has received grants from the Templeton Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.