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Balanced wonder : experiential sources of imagination, virtue, and human flourishing

Title
  1. Balanced wonder : experiential sources of imagination, virtue, and human flourishing / Jan B. W. Pedersen.
Published by
  1. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2019]
Author
  1. Pedersen, Jan B. W.

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Description
  1. x, 231 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm
Summary
  1. "In Balanced Wonder: Experiential Sources of Imagination, Virtue, and Human Flourishing, Jan B. W. Pedersen digs deep into the alluring topic of wonder and argues in a scholarly yet accessible way that the experience of wonder when balanced serves as a strong contributor to human flourishing. Along the way Pedersen describes seven properties of wonder and shows how wonder is distinct from other altered states, including awe, horror, the sublime, curiosity, amazement, admiration, and astonishment. Examining the contribution of both emotion and imagination in the experience of wonder--filtered through the Neo-Aristotelian work of philosophers Douglas Rasmussen, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Martha Nussbaum--Pedersen also makes it clear that wonder may contribute to human flourishing in various ways, such as widening of perception, extension of moral scope or sensitivity, a wondrous afterglow, openness, humility, an imaginative attitude, reverence, and gratitude. Importantly, for wonder to act as a strong contributor to human flourishing one needs to wonder at the right thing, in the right amount, in the right time, in the right way, and for the right purpose"--
Subject
  1. Wonder (Philosophy)
Call number
  1. JFE 20-602
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-223) and index.
Author
  1. Pedersen, Jan B. W., author.
Title
  1. Balanced wonder : experiential sources of imagination, virtue, and human flourishing / Jan B. W. Pedersen.
Publisher
  1. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2019]
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-223) and index.
Other form:
  1. Online version: Pedersen, Jan B. W., Balanced wonder Lanham : Lexington Books, 2019. 9781498587785 (DLC) 2019039863
LCCN
  1. 2019039862
ISBN
  1. 9781498587778 (cloth)
  2. 1498587771
  3. 9781498587785 (epub)
Research call number
  1. JFE 20-602
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