Circling the wagons or opening the circle

“To approach eudaimonia or human flourishing,” Darcia Narvaez writes, “one must have a concept of human nature… a normal baseline.” This article asks: what is the human baseline so that we may develop public policy to suit and advance human and planetary flourishing? It proposes that our “baseline”...

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Published inDialog : a journal of theology Vol. 59; no. 4; pp. 268 - 276
Main Author Pally, Marcia
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Gettysburg Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.12.2020
Subjects
cooperativity
covenant
Covid‐19
Evolution
human aggression
Human nature
hunter gatherer
Personal relationships
Public policy
relationality
Trinity
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Summary:“To approach eudaimonia or human flourishing,” Darcia Narvaez writes, “one must have a concept of human nature… a normal baseline.” This article asks: what is the human baseline so that we may develop public policy to suit and advance human and planetary flourishing? It proposes that our “baseline” is relational, where each person becomes her singular self through networks of relations with others and planet. Relationality is explored through Trinity, covenant, evolutionary biology, and psychology. The article concludes that public policy must be grounded not in “us‐them” thinking but in relationality as this is how we are created.
ISSN:0012-2033
1540-6385
DOI:10.1111/dial.12614