How may the concept of conditions conducive or unconducive to tranquility manifest in a modern world, and account for the happiness of its population?
Mindsets of work
At the level of the individual, and given the focus on production in modern society, your approach to work and labor plays a role in your sense of tranquility or ability to develop a sense of tranquility despite your surroundings.
Efficiency vs tranquility
Do we have an economy designed to prioritize the individual? The focus of a capitalist economy is production and production value, often to the detriment of the ones doing the producing. Does a system whose goal is efficiency lie in direct tension with an individual whose goal is tranquility?
Tranquility across socioeconomic classes
Money isn’t supposed to buy happiness, yet there is the question of whether you’re more liable to be at peace when you have the economic means for comfortable living. Is attunement dependent on class? And if so, what patterns might we notice?
Anarchy as a means of peace
It seems antithetical, yet as a system of bottom-up organisation, might anarchy present a solution for a more attuned society by facilitating agency and interpersonal communication?
Needs of security
It seems antithetical, yet as a system of bottom-up organisation, might anarchy present a solution for a more attuned society by facilitating agency and interpersonal communication?
Isolation in the modern state
With globalisation and digital communication, the world is ironically both more connected and more isolated than ever. Aspects of modern living may promote isolation in a way that prevents the construction of communal spaces and a sense of geographical and social belonging.
Authenticity qualifications
What is actual attunement, and how aware are we of our own senses of tranquility? There are some intuitions about tranquility that allow us to create a philosophical framework for measurement, but whether tranquility is a matter of meeting objective criteria or a subjective experience is a dilemma.
Pleasure & Tranquility
With the pursuit of pleasure being an important feature of modern human conceptions of happiness, one asks whether it is reconcilable with a pursuit of tranquility. Is tranquility a constituent aspect of pleasure, or are hedonic pursuits a direct opposite of the goal of attunement?
