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Acknowledgement to the Independent Social Research Foundation; Contents; 1 Introduction: Has a Morphogenic Society Arrived?; Preface; Summary Characteristics of Morphogenic Society; Morphogenesis and Eudaimonia; Why Morphogenesis Does Not Entail Eudaimonia; Equality, Participation and Eudaimonia; Networking Eudaimonia: The Processes of Participation; Conclusion; References; 2 Human Flourishing and Human Morphogenesis: A Critical Realist Interpretation and Critique; Human Flourishing I: Aristotelian Foundations; Human Flourishing II: Critical Realist Foundations and Elaborations
Human Morphogenesis: The Transhumanist ChallengeMorphogenesis and Metaethics; References; 3 Some Reservations About Flourishing; Flourishing and the Case Against Value Neutrality in the Social Sciences; So What's My Issue?; So What Words Are Better?; Is Our Current Trajectory Toward Flourishing?; References; 4 Reflexivity in a Just Morphogenic Society: A Sociological Contribution to Political Philosophy; Introduction: Reflexivity, Side-Lined in Public Debates and Political Philosophy?; The Contribution of Sociological Theory to Political Philosophy
Morphogenic Society: What It Is and Why It MattersWhat Morphogenic Society Is and What It Is Not; The Dimensions of Social Morphogenesis; Are We Currently Living in a Morphogenic Society?; Normative Problems in Morphogenic Societies; Social Reflexivity: How Should I Make My Way Through the World?; Modes of Social Reflexivity: A Very Brief Refresher; The Morphostatic Assumptions of Theories of Justice; The Meagre Assumptions of Theories of Justice on Social Reflexivity; Should Social Reflexivity Be Listed as a Central Human Capability?
Injustice Resulting from Unequal Social Reflexivity in Morphogenic SocietyOrganisations Fostering Social Reflexivity in a Just Morphogenic Society; Political Reflexivity: Steering Society Together; What Is Political Reflexivity?; Political Reflexivity vs Social Reflexivity; Political Reflexivity vs Leadership; Some of the Capabilities Needed for Political Reflexivity; Why Political Reflexivity Matters; Why Political Reflexivity Matters All the More in Morphogenic Society?; What Organisations May Help Fostering Political Reflexivity?; Conclusion; References
5 The Morphogenic Society as Source and Challenge for Human Fulfillment`Good Life' After Modernity? A Missing Link and the Semantics of Decadence; The Morphogenic Society and Its Challenges to Human Flourishing; Skills, Cooperation, and Transcendence: Emergent Forms of the Human Good in the Morphogenic Society; Conclusion. Being (Fulfilled as) Human in the Morphogenic Society; References; 6 Does Intensive Morphogenesis Foster Human Capacities or Liabilities?; Introduction; Human Thriving in the New Millennium; Current Forms of Global Morphogenesis and Their Relationship to Human Thriving
Human Morphogenesis: The Transhumanist ChallengeMorphogenesis and Metaethics; References; 3 Some Reservations About Flourishing; Flourishing and the Case Against Value Neutrality in the Social Sciences; So What's My Issue?; So What Words Are Better?; Is Our Current Trajectory Toward Flourishing?; References; 4 Reflexivity in a Just Morphogenic Society: A Sociological Contribution to Political Philosophy; Introduction: Reflexivity, Side-Lined in Public Debates and Political Philosophy?; The Contribution of Sociological Theory to Political Philosophy
Morphogenic Society: What It Is and Why It MattersWhat Morphogenic Society Is and What It Is Not; The Dimensions of Social Morphogenesis; Are We Currently Living in a Morphogenic Society?; Normative Problems in Morphogenic Societies; Social Reflexivity: How Should I Make My Way Through the World?; Modes of Social Reflexivity: A Very Brief Refresher; The Morphostatic Assumptions of Theories of Justice; The Meagre Assumptions of Theories of Justice on Social Reflexivity; Should Social Reflexivity Be Listed as a Central Human Capability?
Injustice Resulting from Unequal Social Reflexivity in Morphogenic SocietyOrganisations Fostering Social Reflexivity in a Just Morphogenic Society; Political Reflexivity: Steering Society Together; What Is Political Reflexivity?; Political Reflexivity vs Social Reflexivity; Political Reflexivity vs Leadership; Some of the Capabilities Needed for Political Reflexivity; Why Political Reflexivity Matters; Why Political Reflexivity Matters All the More in Morphogenic Society?; What Organisations May Help Fostering Political Reflexivity?; Conclusion; References
5 The Morphogenic Society as Source and Challenge for Human Fulfillment`Good Life' After Modernity? A Missing Link and the Semantics of Decadence; The Morphogenic Society and Its Challenges to Human Flourishing; Skills, Cooperation, and Transcendence: Emergent Forms of the Human Good in the Morphogenic Society; Conclusion. Being (Fulfilled as) Human in the Morphogenic Society; References; 6 Does Intensive Morphogenesis Foster Human Capacities or Liabilities?; Introduction; Human Thriving in the New Millennium; Current Forms of Global Morphogenesis and Their Relationship to Human Thriving