Good Human Life

A Good Human Life is a human life that has a high score in a good life measure.

• AKA: Good Life, Flourishing Life, Eudaimonic Life, Well-Lived Life.
• Context:
  • It can typically achieve Life Satisfaction through positive experiences.
  • It can typically demonstrate Human Flourishing through capability realization.
  • It can typically maintain Psychological Wellbeing through mental health.
  • It can typically foster Meaningful Relationships through social connections.
  • It can typically pursue Life Purpose through goal achievement.
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  • It can often involve Virtue Practice through ethical behaviors.
  • It can often create Positive Impact through societal contributions.
  • It can often experience Personal Growth through continuous development.
  • It can often balance Life Domains through holistic integration.
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  • It can range from being a Hedonic Good Human Life to being a Eudaimonic Good Human Life, depending on its good human life philosophical foundation.
  • It can range from being a Material Good Human Life to being a Spiritual Good Human Life, depending on its good human life value orientation.
  • It can range from being an Individual Good Human Life to being a Communal Good Human Life, depending on its good human life social focus.
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  • It can be measured by Subjective Wellbeing Scales through self-assessments.
  • It can be evaluated by Objective Wellbeing Indicators through external metrics.
  • It can incorporate Cultural Good Life Standards through societal norms.
  • It can reflect Philosophical Good Life Conceptions through theoretical frameworks.
  • It can manifest Good Life Practices through daily routines.
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• Example(s):
  • Philosophical Good Human Lifes, such as:
    • Aristotelian Good Life emphasizing virtue ethics and human flourishing.
    • Stoic Good Life focusing on emotional resilience and wisdom pursuit.
    • Buddhist Good Life achieving enlightenment through suffering transcendence.
    • Utilitarian Good Life maximizing happiness and pleasure.
  • Contemporary Good Human Lifes, such as:
    • Authentic Life expressing true self through genuine choices.
    • Balanced Professional Life integrating career success with personal wellbeing.
    • Service-Oriented Good Life finding meaning through helping others.
    • Creative Good Life achieving self-actualization through artistic expression.
  • Cultural Good Human Lifes, such as:
    • Western Good Life emphasizing individual achievement and personal freedom.
    • Eastern Good Life prioritizing harmony and collective wellbeing.
    • Indigenous Good Life maintaining connection to nature and ancestral wisdom.
    • Modern Digital Good Life balancing technology use with human connection.
  • Development-Stage Good Human Lifes, such as:
    • Good Childhood featuring secure attachment and playful learning.
    • Good Young Adulthood involving identity formation and skill development.
    • Good Middle Age achieving generativity and life stability.
    • Good Elder Years demonstrating wisdom and life integration.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Bad Life, such as an inauthentic life.
  • Tragic Human Life, which involves persistent suffering and tragic outcomes.
  • Meaningless Life, which lacks purpose and direction.
  • Isolated Life, which misses social connection and community belonging.
• See: Eudaimonia.
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References

2021

• (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Life Retrieved:2021-3-31.
  • The Good Life or Good Life may refer to:

     Eudaimonia, a philosophical term for the life that one would like to live, originally associated with Aristotle.

2015

• (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_good_life Retrieved:2015-11-30.
  • The good life is a term for the life that one would like to live, or for happiness, associated (as eudaimonia) with the work of Aristotle and his teaching on ethics. People who hope for a better world feel the need for a shared vision of the "good life," a vision that is flexible enough for innumerable individual circumstances but comprehensive enough to unite people in optimistic, deliberate, progressive social change.

2013

• (Veenhoven, 2013) ⇒ Ruut Veenhoven. (2013). “The Four Qualities of Life Ordering Concepts and Measures of the Good Life.” In: The exploration of happiness, pp. 195-226 . Springer Netherlands,

1999

• (Sen, 1999) ⇒ Amartya Sen. (1999). “Development As Freedom." Oxford University Press.
  • QUOTE: The issue is not the ability to live forever on which Maitreyee - bless her soul - happened to concentrate, but the capability to live really long without being cut off in one's prime) and to have a good life while alive (rather than a life of misery and unfreedom) - things that would be strongly valued and desired by nearly all of us. The gap between the two perspectives (that is, between an exclusive concentration on economic wealth and a broader focus on the lives we can lead) is a major issue in conceptualizing development. As Aristotle noted at the very beginning of the Nicomachean Ethics (resonating well with the conversation between Maitreyee and Yajnavalkya three thousand miles away), “wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.",

1998

• (King & Napa, 1998) ⇒ Laura A. King, and Christie K. Napa. (1998). “What Makes a Life Good?.” In: Journal of personality and social psychology 75, no. 1

1997

• (Singer, 1997) ⇒ Peter Singer. (1997). “The Drowning Child and the Expanding Circle.” In: New Internationalist, 289.
  • QUOTE: An ethical life is one in which we identify ourselves with other, larger, goals, thereby giving meaning to our lives. The view that there is harmony between ethics and enlightened self-interest is an ancient one, now often scorned. Cynicism is more fashionable than idealism. But such hopes are not groundless, and there are substantial elements of truth in the ancient view that an ethically reflective life is also a good life for the person leading it.

1985

• (Belk & Pollay, 1985) ⇒ Russell W. Belk, and Richard W. Pollay . (1985). “Images of Ourselves: The Good Life in Twentieth Century Advertising.” In: Journal of Consumer Research

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