The Good Life and the Ideal of Flexibility

The author focuses on the issue of the "good life" in relation to a strong ideal of flexibility that operates in contemporary western culture. The era we live in may be called a "continuous stream of innovations" and can be characterized by a fundamental requirement "to adapt flexibly and cope with the new". The need for such flexibility is mentally and physically demanding; the demands also mark the approach to values, the ideas of the good life and the project of the paths in life. Contemporary people in western civilization are exposed to the pressure of modern culture that has caused problems in the past decades as a result of the incompatibility of its fragmentary value systems. People today apply their abilities in a never-ending whirl of activities and effort where there is no more space available for becoming aware of and for perceiving the deeper meaning of and formulating their specific ideal of the good life.

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• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: The Good Life and the Ideal of Flexibility ; volume:18 ; number:2 ; year:2008 ; pages:161-170 ; extent:10 ; Human affairs ; 18, Heft 2 (2008), 161-170 (gesamt 10)

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Urheber: Šulavíková, Blanka

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.2478/v10023-008-0016-2
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2404281546019.277941266199
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.