Human Flourishing and the Arts in Unprecedented Times (Part II)
May 10th, 2023
Understanding flourishing using the arts can enhance our well-being.
Psychology Today
Posted byCherry Ng
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If someone asked if you were flourishing, what would you say? How about if someone asked if you could flourish? How might you respond?
In Part I of this series, we learned that the definition of the word flourishing is “to grow luxuriantly,” with its Latin roots in the blooming plants of nature. Matthew T. Lee, Research Associate and Director of the Human Flourishing Program’s Flourishing Network at Harvard University and Professor of Social Sciences and Humanities at Baylor University, further defined human flourishing for us as “a relative attainment of a state in which all aspects of a person’s life are good, including the contexts in which that person lives.”
In Part I of this series, we learned that the definition of the word flourishing is “to grow luxuriantly,” with its Latin roots in the blooming plants of nature. Matthew T. Lee, Research Associate and Director of the Human Flourishing Program’s Flourishing Network at Harvard University and Professor of Social Sciences and Humanities at Baylor University, further defined human flourishing for us as “a relative attainment of a state in which all aspects of a person’s life are good, including the contexts in which that person lives.”
