Editorial

Authors

  • Cecilia Costa Ordinary Professor of Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes, Department of Education Sciences, University of Roma Tre.
  • Andrea Velardi Ordinary Professor of Philosophy of Cognitive and Emotional Processes, Niccolò Cusano University

Keywords:

wellbeing, community, society, organization, Human Flourishing

Abstract

With this special issue, we wanted to take a closer look at the subject of flourishing, as it is thematised within the framework of the social sciences, with the intention of offering a contribution and an interpretative key to the practical urgency of offering a transdisciplinary reflection, which puts the person at the centre as a reflective actor able to act in the world.

The term human flourishing refers to the person's ability to live the different circumstances in which human existence unfolds, making them fruitful. According to this perspective, the concept of flourishing does not define a momentary state of grace but an evolutionary path for the realisation of the person, which has as its ultimate horizon the successful outcome of existence seen as ‘whole’.

Author Biographies

Cecilia Costa, Ordinary Professor of Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes, Department of Education Sciences, University of Roma Tre.

Ordinary Professor of Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes, Department of Education Sciences, University of Roma Tre. His main areas of theoretical interest and empirical research are: the religious phenomenon, the imaginary, digital languages and communicative-relational, identity changes, especially in relation to the reality of youth.

Andrea Velardi, Ordinary Professor of Philosophy of Cognitive and Emotional Processes, Niccolò Cusano University

Ordinary Professor of Philosophy of Cognitive and Emotional Processes at the Niccolò Cusano University where he coordinates the PhD in well-being, emergent systems and complexity and where he is Dean of Humanities. His research areas concern ontology and its relations with epistemology and cognition; the interaction between cognitive and emotional processes especially with reference to the phenomenology of empathy; the metaphysics of emergent systems and complexity theory.

Published

2024-12-02

How to Cite

Costa, C., & Velardi, A. (2024). Editorial. Community Notebook. People, Education and Welfare in the Society 5.0, 1(3), 11–16. Retrieved from https://www.quadernidicomunita.it/index.php/qdc/article/view/323

Issue

No. 3 (2024): Human Flourishing for wellbeing in society, communities and organizations

Section

Editorial

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