Friday, 3 October 2025

The Becoming of Human Possibility: A Life-Scale Perspective — 12 Toward Relational Flourishing

If possibility is always relational, then flourishing cannot be conceived as an isolated achievement. It is not the maximisation of individual capacity but the co-individuation of lives within networks of mutual actualisation.

Relational flourishing names a mode of becoming in which agency, constraint, and difference are held in generative tension. It is not the erasure of limits but their negotiation; not the pursuit of autonomy detached from others but the cultivation of interdependencies that expand what can be.

Such flourishing requires infrastructures that sustain multiplicity: social, political, and technological arrangements that enable diverse potentials to unfold without collapsing into uniformity or domination. It is a project of designing conditions in which lives do not merely persist but resonate, each contributing to the horizons of possibility for others.

To move toward relational flourishing is to reframe the human good as a collective practice of world-making. It is to see possibility itself as an ethical field, where the measure of becoming lies not in solitary advancement but in the shared expansion of what life may become.

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