dc.contributor.author | Griffiths, Jack | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-24T08:48:19Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-06-06 | |
dc.description.abstract | This thesis explores the relation between the normative structures brought to bear on the evaluation of life and the way in which the coming-into-being of living organisms is fundamentally understood. It provides a new analysis and critique of the standard concept of ‘flourishing’ in neo-Aristotelian meta-ethics, by uncovering the underlying interpretation of organismic becoming on which it relies, and showing how the turn to a ‘constructivist’ conception of development in contemporary biological theory both disrupts this underlying metaphysics, and provides resources for re-thinking flourishing on a fundamentally different basis. The central claim is that we should turn from a view in which life is given a form to fulfil, and becoming is the process of its fulfilment, to one in which living is the process of creating a way in the world, as life goes along. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | ESRC | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/34080 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | University of Exeter | en_GB |
dc.subject | political thought | en_GB |
dc.subject | meta-ethics | en_GB |
dc.subject | philosophy of biology | en_GB |
dc.title | Re-thinking ‘Flourishing’ as an Organic Concept of the Good: The Interpretation of Development and the Evaluation of Life | en_GB |
dc.type | Thesis or dissertation | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2018-09-24T08:48:19Z | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Durie, Robin | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Dupre, John | |
dc.publisher.department | Politics | en_GB |
dc.type.degreetitle | PhD in Politics | en_GB |
dc.type.qualificationlevel | Doctoral | en_GB |
dc.type.qualificationname | PhD | en_GB |