ABSTRACT
Flourishing is a way of being that realises the full biological and existential potential of humans. The existential aspect has two necessary aspects: personal wholeness and social coherence, reflecting (1) an individual’s historical uniqueness and (2) the inherent sociability of Homo sapiens. Each aspect is enacted primarily by one of the two brain hemispheres: personal wholeness by the right and social coherence by the left. Modernity has favoured the left over the right, consequently suppressing the emergence of flourishing and creating other pathologies. Ontological design, through its transformative powers to change our way of being, is essential in restructuring institutions and creating new artefacts that will re-balance the brain and, thus, allow flourishing to emerge. This has implications for the development of a successful society in balance not just with the planet but also with our own balance as actors in the world.
