Floriescence: Foundations for Human Flourishing on a Thriving Planet - A Visionary Synthesis of Science, Ethics, and Aesthetics Crafted to Promote Well-Being in the 21st Century
By J. Dirk Nies (Chem'74), with Carmen Morales Nies
(Floriescent Press, 184 pages; 2019)
Floriescence is a groundbreaking, visionary synthesis of science, ethics, and aesthetics crafted to promote well-being in the 21st century. Its robust, comprehensive, multidimensional framework of fact and value - the Floriescent SEAview - affords a vantage point from which we can see where we ought to go, illumining ways of human flourishing that are in harmony with the ecological economy of the natural world. Simultaneously engaging the universal hopes and aspirations of the human spirit while nourishing the soul’s love of the personal and the particular, Floriescence creates a civil conversational space that invites both creativity and reverence as together we address the complex and often vexing problems of modern life.
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The floriescent worldview is a visionary synthesis of science, ethics, and aesthetics crafted to promote well-being in the 21st century. Floriescence integrates the scientific and empirically verifiable, the ethical and virtuous, and the beautiful and aesthetically meaningful into a coherent whole. Its interweaving of science, ethics, and aesthetics engages the universal hopes and aspirations of the human spirit while nourishing the soul’s love of the personal and the particular. Its integration of the ideal with the specific acknowledges and celebrates that what is ‘good’ is elaborately complex, and what is ‘beautiful’ is richly varied and at times enigmatic.