Timothy Fowler and Timothy Fowler
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781529201635
- eISBN:
- 9781529201680
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781529201635.003.0007
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Ethical Issues and Debates
In this chapter, I discuss what perfectionism for children entails. In this context, perfectionism refers to the view that the state is empowered to promote people’s welfare by taking actions ...
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In this chapter, I discuss what perfectionism for children entails. In this context, perfectionism refers to the view that the state is empowered to promote people’s welfare by taking actions premised on a contested view of ethics. Whereas previous discussions have been focussed on individual achievements in fields like the arts or sport, I argue this rests on an implausibly narrow view of personal flourishing. In addition, I argue against the view that perfectionism should aim only, or mostly, at the promotion of autonomy. While critical thinking and self-reflection are often central to a good life, they are far from sufficient. Instead, promoting the welfare of children requires them to come to hold ethical beliefs conducive to their flourishing; they must hold a positive and plausible conception of the good.Less
In this chapter, I discuss what perfectionism for children entails. In this context, perfectionism refers to the view that the state is empowered to promote people’s welfare by taking actions premised on a contested view of ethics. Whereas previous discussions have been focussed on individual achievements in fields like the arts or sport, I argue this rests on an implausibly narrow view of personal flourishing. In addition, I argue against the view that perfectionism should aim only, or mostly, at the promotion of autonomy. While critical thinking and self-reflection are often central to a good life, they are far from sufficient. Instead, promoting the welfare of children requires them to come to hold ethical beliefs conducive to their flourishing; they must hold a positive and plausible conception of the good.
M. Jan Holton
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780300207620
- eISBN:
- 9780300220797
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300207620.003.0003
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
Home at its best leans into God and compels humans toward a horizon upon which to measure meaning making, belonging, sense of security, and relationship. When leaning into God meaning unfolds in a ...
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Home at its best leans into God and compels humans toward a horizon upon which to measure meaning making, belonging, sense of security, and relationship. When leaning into God meaning unfolds in a lived faith narrative, ultimate belonging becomes the plumb line, courage transforms how we define security, and love of the other rooted in love of God and self is the bedrock of relationship. Failures in home while altering the outcome of these functions, sometimes significantly, do not diminish the essential importance of the functions themselves. Home at its best can lead toward physical, psychological, social, and spiritual flourishing though it is likely more relative than absolute in its effect. Such relative flourishing is essential to understanding resilience in the midst of displacement. Nonetheless, forced displacement can create not only a rupture in the functions of home but also can lead to systematized social exclusion. The theologies of Paul Tillich, Edward Farley, and David Kelsey offer insight into understanding human connection to place, social exclusion, and flourishing.Less
Home at its best leans into God and compels humans toward a horizon upon which to measure meaning making, belonging, sense of security, and relationship. When leaning into God meaning unfolds in a lived faith narrative, ultimate belonging becomes the plumb line, courage transforms how we define security, and love of the other rooted in love of God and self is the bedrock of relationship. Failures in home while altering the outcome of these functions, sometimes significantly, do not diminish the essential importance of the functions themselves. Home at its best can lead toward physical, psychological, social, and spiritual flourishing though it is likely more relative than absolute in its effect. Such relative flourishing is essential to understanding resilience in the midst of displacement. Nonetheless, forced displacement can create not only a rupture in the functions of home but also can lead to systematized social exclusion. The theologies of Paul Tillich, Edward Farley, and David Kelsey offer insight into understanding human connection to place, social exclusion, and flourishing.
Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781501713217
- eISBN:
- 9781501709685
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501713217.003.0007
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter examines the potential neighborhood effects of trailer park residence on child and youth development. Using parents’ aspirations that their children have broader life chances than they ...
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This chapter examines the potential neighborhood effects of trailer park residence on child and youth development. Using parents’ aspirations that their children have broader life chances than they themselves had, this chapter documents the range of developmental trajectories among children and youth growing up in a rural trailer park. While a few flourish, most often, young people seem set on a course to reproduce their parents working poor class status. Increasingly in adolescence, as the social stigma of park residence emerges, there are developmental costs of park residence that compromises life chances. Less
This chapter examines the potential neighborhood effects of trailer park residence on child and youth development. Using parents’ aspirations that their children have broader life chances than they themselves had, this chapter documents the range of developmental trajectories among children and youth growing up in a rural trailer park. While a few flourish, most often, young people seem set on a course to reproduce their parents working poor class status. Increasingly in adolescence, as the social stigma of park residence emerges, there are developmental costs of park residence that compromises life chances.
Jarrod Longbons
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780823264995
- eISBN:
- 9780823266876
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823264995.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter takes issue with Slavoj Žižek’s announcement of the “death of ecology.” The “death of ecology” addresses the claim that there is a difference between culture and nature, comforting us ...
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This chapter takes issue with Slavoj Žižek’s announcement of the “death of ecology.” The “death of ecology” addresses the claim that there is a difference between culture and nature, comforting us with the idea that we can “fix” things by changing our actions so that they no longer harm nature. According to Žižek, human culture—including technology, pollution, and trash—is just as natural as anything else.Less
This chapter takes issue with Slavoj Žižek’s announcement of the “death of ecology.” The “death of ecology” addresses the claim that there is a difference between culture and nature, comforting us with the idea that we can “fix” things by changing our actions so that they no longer harm nature. According to Žižek, human culture—including technology, pollution, and trash—is just as natural as anything else.
