EMERGING SCIENCE OF MULTI-SYSTEMIC RESILIENCE: TRADE-OFFS AND TRANSFORMATIONS IN CONTEXTS OF ADVERSITY

• Authors: Ungar Michael , Koubová Alice
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper explores the concept of resilience as much more than a personal capacity to overcome adversity. Using reflections from ontology, ethics and epistemology, this paper offers philosophical contextualisation of resilience thinking and the corresponding paradigm shift. It shows that individual resilience depends on a person’s ability to navigate their way to the resources they need for well-being while making multi-systemic resources available in ways that are meaningful. Paradoxically, resilience is a consequence of how these multiple systems interact to support positive development and the feedback loops and trade-offs necessary to ensure that a single system’s success does not compromise the resilience of other systems. Five patterns of resilience are discussed, each a viable solution to coping with stress.

Keywords

EN

RESILIENCE; MULTISYSTEMIC; TRADE-OFFS; PHILOSOPHY OF RESILIENCE; ONTOLOGICAL PARADIGM; ETHICAL SHIFT

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 79
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 1174 – 1185

Contributors

author

Ungar Michael

• Resilience Research Centre, Dalhousie University, 6420 Coburg Road, Halifax, Canada B4B 4R2

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0431-347x

author

Koubová Alice

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6097-0872

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/filozofia.2024.79.10.8