Virtue And Psychology: Pursuing Excellence In Ordinary Practices

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Prosociality enhances meaning in life (2016, background): “Fowers (2005) defined virtues, which certainly are prosocial, as the form of excellence that allows individuals to pursue worthwhile goals in everyday activities.”
From Continence to Virtue (2008, background): “Renewed scholarly attention to the Aristotelian tradition has rendered it more accessible and applicable to contemporary concerns (e.g., Broadie, 1991; Fowers, 2005; Hursthouse, 1999; MacIntyre, 1981, 1999; Rorty, 1980; Sherman, 1989).”
Constitutive and instrumental goal orientations and their relations with eudaimonic and hedonic well-being (2010, background): “…eudaimonic perspective, Vitality appears to be an affective component of well-being that would be a better fit with hedonic well-being than with eudaimonic well-being, which emphasizes meaning, purpose, and belonging as distinctive concomitants of a constitutive mode of goal pursuit (Fowers, 2005).”
The Nested Model of Well-Being: A Unified Approach (2014, background): “X as living far from a virtuous life (Fowers, 2005).”