List of Illustrations and Figures List of Tables List of Contributors How to Read This Book Foreword - Ban Ki-moon and Patrick Verkoojen (Former Secretary-General of the United Nations and CEO of the Global Center on Adaptation) Acknowledgement Introduction - Andrej Zwitter (Professor of Political Theory and Governance, University of Groningen, Netherlands) Part I: Meta-Scientific Approaches to Understanding Flourishing Chapter 1. The Spectrum of Human Understanding: The Conceptual Basis of Human Flourishing - George Ellis (Professor Emeritus and Research Fellow, University of Cape Town, South Africa) Chapter 2. The Indispensability Thesis and the Expanded Notion of Nature - Markus Gabriel (Chair in Epistemology, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, University of Bonn, Germany) Chapter 3. Ontological Security and Worldviews for Human Flourishing - Dean Rickles (Professor of History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, University of Sydney, Australia) Part II: Non-Material Conceptions of Flourishing Chapter 4. Positive Psychology and Human Flourishing Chapter 5. Christian and Neo-Platonic Roots of Flourishing - Higher Virtues and the Pursuit of Happiness - Andrej Zwitter (Professor of Political Theory and Governance, University of Groningen, Netherlands) Chapter 6. Learning to Flourish with Spinoza - Harald Atmanspacher (Chair of Philosophy, ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Part III: Context and Culture - Flourishing as Being Chapter 7. The Arc of Hope - Richard Hecht (Professor Emeritus in Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) Chapter 8.
Folktales, Stories, and Traditions - Conceptual Indigenous Wisdom and Knowledge for Human Flourishing - Wakanyi Hoffman (Research Fellow, The New Institute, Hamburg, Germany) Chapter 9. Confucian Language of Flourishing: Reading the Classic Daxue - Victoria Sukhomlinova (Research Fellow, The New Institute, Hamburg, Germany) Chapter 10. Towards a Feminist and Radical Democratic Theory of Human Flourishing - Maggie O'Neill (Professor in Sociology and Criminology, University College Cork, Ireland) Chapter 11. The King's Philosophy and a Happiness Train: A Conceptual Overview of GNH - Karma Ura (President of CBS & GNH Studies, Thimphu, Bhutan) Part IV: New Imaginaries of Flourishing Chapter 12. Planetary Thinking for Planetary Flourishing Chapter 13. Reclaiming Care - Homo Curans as Vision for Human Flourishing and Sustainability Transformation - Ariel Hernandez (Senior Researcher, German Institute of Development and Sustainability, Germany) Chapter 14. Reimagining a World Fit for Our Humanity - Ian Hughes (Senior Research Fellow, MaREI Centre, Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Ireland) Chapter 15. Flourishing in the International Sphere: From Sovereignty to Solidarity: Challenges to 'Modern' International Law - Hans-Joachim Heintze (Affiliation not listed) Chapter 16.
Human Flourishing: An Integrated Systems Approach to Development Post 2030 - Andrej Zwitter, George Ellis, Ariel Hernandez, Wakanyi Hoffman, Karma Ura, Richard Hecht Conclusion - Andrej Zwitter (Professor of Political Theory and Governance, University of Groningen, Netherlands) Epilogue: Religions in Transformation to Sustainability: The Role of the Sacred in Human Flourishing - Mary McAleese (Former Irish President) Bibliography.