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"The range of topics in this volume covers a multitude of historical periods and topics, which in turn figure in the new media environments of contemporary life. These include discussions of the Aristotelian and classical models of a "good life" that inform animated fairy tales today, 1930s French and Hollywood films which respond to the dire need for productive human relationships in a turbulent decade, the polemical positions of black film criticism through the lens of James Baldwin's work, a discussion of contemporary filmic quests for happiness, the challenges for women filmmakers today in mapping the values of their own world, landscapes of austerity and poverty in the cinematic homelands today, the scientific, psychological, and philosophical base for human value, and the shifting media frames of modern society and selves"--

"An interdisciplinary exploration of the various ways in which religion contributes to individual and social well-being"--

The healthcare sector in the Western world is in the midst of a significant change. Most healthcare organizations are going through the grueling process of having to make decisions and staying updated in a world where technology, medical information, demographics of patients and relationships between other healthcare systems are constantly changing (Cohen et al., 2004). Besides, governments throughout the developed world have been under pressure to reduce healthcare costs, while improving the quality of care (Howie & Erickson, 2002; McCue, 1997; Segesten, Lundgren & Lindström, 1998). In such an environment, healthcare service providers are finding it increasingly difficult to understand the far-reaching social impact of their services. This project uses the concept of flourishing to help clinicians and administrators in a hospital to analyze their current service offerings, find gaps and come up with recommendations to improve the same. Keyes' (1998, 2002) defined human flourishing as the sum of qualities that would ensure a healthy sense of well-being and social integration. There is a special focus on understanding the context and stakeholders using the adapted social ecosystem model of Bronfenbrenner (1979), which will help in identifying functions and measures of flourishing across a social system. Using the Flourishing Business Canvas (Upward and Jones, 2016), this research project explores ways of impact definition and evaluation and also measures social and environmental benefits which will help decision makers in a healthcare setting. The research looks at relevant literature in the field of business models, sustainability, and flourishing, with health care as the context. This action-led design research introduced a business modeling artifact (the Flourishing Business canvas) to a group of decision makers at the level of director and managers, in North York General Hospital in a generative workshop session. The participants are encouraged to look at their service lines as businesses and map out that out on the canvas in the form of a model. Their observation, reactions, and data from the canvases are recorded. This and data from interviews with other clinical directors are tallied and analyzed to look for common challenges faced by the hospital and areas of opportunities. The unique contribution is the design of a process and method for representing conditions and elements of flourishing within healthcare service lines: a business process that is currently desired but unavailable to organizations (Jones, 2016, personal conversation). The research findings are used to come up with a design proposal which could be used to use the data from the proposed new process.

To my knowledge, the term "flourishing" was introduced into contemporary philosophy in Elizabeth Anscombe's 1958 article "Modern Moral Philosophy." In this article and in much of the writing subsequent to it, the concept of flourishing seems to have three principal facets, or to be associated with three philosophical views.

The question of what constitutes human flourishing elicits an extraordinary variety of responses, which suggests that there are not merely differences of opinion at work, but also different understandings of the question itself. So it may help to introduce some clarity into the question before starting work on one answer to it.

How can feminist moral philosophy redeem the present? In this article I present the idea of a moral imaginary as the habitus of our ethical attitudes and actions, and argue that the moral imaginary of the West is preoccupied with gendered violence and death. I use a psychotherapeutic model of change through analysis and suggestion, and a Foucauldian account of the history of the present, to present the beginnings of an imaginary of natality centred in a symbolic of flourishing as a resource for discursive and material transformation.

AbstractThe polarization of the debate about artificial intelligence (AI) pulls in two mutually exclusive directions of either complete takeover of future jobs by omnipotent algorithms or an absolute bliss with robots at work while humans reap the benefits of endless vacation. Add this to conflicting views of work as either a disutility to be minimized or as an essential component in human flourishing, and it is no wonder a wide range of views are expressed on AI and human flourishing. The literature, from Smith to Keynes and beyond, offers some initial methodological guidance. Still, the true social and economic implications of an AI‐type environment in production and labor markets are yet to be fully understood. This article argues that neither of the predictions are realistic. Instead, the global economy may be passing, albeit at a faster speed, through a phase of technological change, similar to those experienced before. While a nuanced balance is emerging, with an emphasis on human skills in future employment, the benefits may not be equitably distributed, as equality of opportunities for human development may not be reachable, though visible, in the AI‐driven society. Hence, as firms seek efficiency gains, much weight is shifted onto governments and quasi‐private entities in maintaining decent living standards conducive to human flourishing in unprecedented times of the COVID‐19 pandemic. The article reviews various popular concerns and advances new public policy measures aimed at tackling some of the immediate fears of automation.