Filthy Flourishing

Childhood Environments and Flourishing

Early childrearing provides a critical environmental context for development. As the authors in this book have illustrated, early life context has implications for all manner of later outcomes, including the management of aggression (see chapter 7), brain development (see chapter 2), participation in relationships (see chapter 4) and mental health (see chapter 3). In all of these chapters, the ...

Ideals, Education, and Happy Flourishing

In this essay, Doret J. de Ruyter defends the claim that parents as well as professional educators need to impart ideals to children in order to realize their wish that children become happy and flourishing adults. The argument consists of two parts. First, de Ruyter shows how ideals are important to construing the meaning of objective goods. Second, she contends that educating children with id...

Religious Communities and Human Flourishing

Participation in religious services is associated with numerous aspects of human flourishing, including happiness and life satisfaction, mental and physical health, meaning and purpose, character and virtue, and close social relationships. Evidence for the effects of religious communities on these flourishing outcomes now comes from rigorous longitudinal study designs with extensive confounding...

Flourishing or floundering in the 1990s.

Five Keys to Flourishing in Trying Times

in this article, i rely on two decades of empirical research on organizations that have faced difficult economic situations but achieved unexpected and exceptional levels of success. Carefully examining these organizations has helped uncover some unusual leadership strategies that can serve as guidelines to leaders facing tying times. these unusual strategies supplement the oft-prescribed leade...