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Drawing on a genealogical analysis of the distinction between zoē (biological life as organic functioning) and bios (a distinctively human way of life shaped by meaning, orientation, and evaluative practice), the article reconceives bioethics as bios ethikos: ethical reflection on the conditions under which forms of life become meaningful and inhabitable. It introduces the notion of the existential remainder to describe the ethically significant dimensions that persist when institutional deliberation leaves aspects of lived existence under-articulated. The article proposes a renewed structural orientation grounded in the heuristic formula T = PEWS + C. Ethical thinking (T) is distributed across four interrelated domains of lived existence: Person, Earth, Work, and Society (PEWS), while the addition of C designates the creative openness that resists full institutional codification. PEWS-oriented evaluation may be operationalised through more integrative assessment tools, while maintaining vigilance toward the irreducible horizon of existential creativity. Bioethics, thus reconceived, becomes not only the regulation of life, but reflection on whether the governance of life sustains the conditions under which life can remain meaningfully lived.

While physical and mental health are widely recognized dimensions of human well-being, this article introduces philosophical health as a crucial third dimension that addresses our fundamental orientation in life and our deeper sense of purpose. As we face unprecedented global challenges, from environmental and political crises to technological disruption, philosophical health offers practical wisdom for creating what Leibniz called ‘the best of all possible worlds’: one where individual fulfilment and collective flourishing become complementary, offering ‘compossible’ rather than competing goals. The article concludes by suggesting how philosophical health can be cultivated through regular practice, suggesting that this development is essential for addressing our most pressing contemporary challenges.

A woman’s chronic pain is controlled to a stable score, yet her sleep, her work, her singing, and her partnership have narrowed around her condition. Each clinical decision was defensible; what failed is the existential composition around them. This article proposes eudynamia as the concept bioethics lacks: the distributed activity through which possibilities are composed across the conditions of a life so that securing one does not foreclose the others. Ernst Daniel August Bartels coined Eudynamie in § 55 of his Lehrbuch der allgemeinen Pathologie (1819) for a physiological capacity working as it should, then observed that its value changes with the capacities beside it. His relational biology identified the configurational problem but lacked an account of what a life-capacity is a capacity for. Phenomenology and 4E cognition supply the missing content, understanding life and cognition as distributed: embodied, extended, enactive, and embedded. Eudynamia is accordingly reconstructed as the work of keeping possibilities compossible across Person, Earth, Work, and Society, while dysdynamia names configurations in which local effectivity forecloses the wider life. Canguilhem’s biological normativity then distinguishes compossibility from coercive coherence, since eudynamic integration preserves the creative capacity to institute new norms. The framework is illustrated in integrative care, antimicrobial stewardship, and artificial intelligence. Bioethics has learned to ask whether each decision is right. It must also learn to ask what forms of life its right decisions, taken together, are making possible.

This article explores the reciprocal relationship between artificial intelligence and philosophical health – defined as eudynamic adequation between thoughts and actions. Rather than simply examining how AI might enhance philosophical practice, we investigate how philosophical health can enhance AI applications while preserving the human character of philosophical reflection. We introduce the C.I.P.H.E.R. model (Crealectic Intelligence and Philosophical Health for Eudynamic Realities), a novel framework allowing for AI and human philosophical capacity to collaborate through a “human-in-the-loop” approach. Drawing on original data from a survey of 288 participants conducted between July 2023 and March 2025, we examine contemporary philosophical perspectives across six dimensions: bodily sense, sense of self, belonging, possibility, purpose, and philosophical worldview. Key findings reveal significant patterns including widespread loneliness despite connection (30.6%), evolving self-perception (75.3%), and gaps between purpose recognition and implementation. These empirical insights are evaluated against our theoretical framework for mutual enhancement between philosophical health and AI applications. We address fundamental challenges of technological mediation in philosophical inquiry, particularly regarding embodied understanding and authentic meaning-making.

We explore the potential and limitations of using artificial intelligence to quantify philosophical health. Philosophical health is an approach to well-being defined as the dynamic coherence between thoughts, values, and actions in harmony with the world. As both AI and philosophical practice gain prominence in contemporary life, their intersection raises fundamental questions about measurement, meaning, and human flourishing. To substantiate our analysis, we present the Philosophical Health Compass (PHC), a quantitative instrument designed to assess six dimensions of philosophical wellbeing: bodily sense, sense of self, sense of belonging, sense of the possible, sense of purpose, and philosophical sense. Through analysis of this instrument, we investigate whether philosophical health – traditionally approached through qualitative exploration and dialogue – could meaningfully benefit from AI-assisted quantification. We introduce the C.I.P.H.E.R. Model (Crealectic Intelligence and Philosophical Health for Enriched Realities) as a human-in-the-loop framework for responsible integration of AI in philosophical practice. The article argues that while quantification offers valuable research opportunities, philosophical health assessment must preserve human sovereignty and philosophical pluralism. We conclude that AI can conditionally enhance philosophical health evaluation if implemented within boundaries that maintain the essentially human character of philosophical reflection, suggesting a complementary rather than substitutive relationship between quantitative tools and qualitative dialogue.

This open access book introduces crealectics, a new creative methodology that bridges philosophical depth with practical innovation. Drawing on Leibniz's concept of compossibility – the idea that not everything possible can coexist in the same world –the author develops a five-phase approach to holistic innovation: resetting, crealing, profusing, compossibilizing, and realizing.

Tested through real-world applications including case studies with Vattenfall R&D, the crealectic method offers an alternative to purely analytical or dialectical approaches to innovation, what the author calls “inner-novation." The book presents the C.I.P.H.E.R. model (Crealectic Intelligence and Philosophical Health for Enriched Realities), demonstrating how individual transformation and collective innovation can work together to create "the best of compossible worlds."

This interdisciplinary work contributes to possibility studies, sustainability thinking, and innovation methodology, offering practical tools for academics, practitioners, and students seeking approaches to creative problem-solving that honor both diversity and coherence.

This article introduces the Tetractys of Philosophical Health, a structured visual exercise inspired by the Pythagorean tetractys that facilitates alignment between an individual’s cosmological worldview, sense of purpose, and practical engagement with the world. This heuristic exercise is methodologically grounded through multi-layered convergent indications from cognitive load theory, affective neuroscience, neuroplasticity research, ancient wisdom traditions, and sustained philosophical counselling practice. Employed as a core component within the SMILE_PH method (Sense-Making Interviews Looking at Elements of Philosophical Health), the exercise serves as both exploratory tool and intervention, bridging abstract philosophical reflection and concrete action while training compossibility thinking—the capacity to create mutually reinforcing relationships between different dimensions of possibility. The article presents this four-layer theoretical foundation, describes implementations within philosophical counselling sessions with case examples, and discusses theoretical and practical implications for educational, organizational, and personal development contexts. The Tetractys, a tested innovation presented here for the first time in print, contributes to philosophical practice and possibility studies by offering a consolidating—compossibilizing—approach that helps individuals create integration between personal cosmology, cognitive coherence and practical mission while developing systemic thinking.

This paper introduces the Philosophical Health Compass (PHC), a quantitative assessment tool designed to complement qualitative research methods in investigating philosophical aspects of human wellbeing. The PHC evaluates six dimensions of philosophical health identified through previous research: bodily sense, sense of self, sense of belonging, sense of the possible, sense of purpose, and philosophical sense. While qualitative approaches in philosophical health excel at capturing rich individual narratives, their limitations in standardization and scalability constrain systematic research across populations. The PHC addresses this methodological gap by translating comprehensive philosophical concepts into measurable variables, enabling researchers to conduct comparative analyses, and integrate philosophical dimensions into an established wellbeing framework. This instrument is grounded in the SMILE_PH interview methodology introduced in 2023 by Luis de Miranda in the present journal, which has indicated through extensive field application that philosophical and existential health can be systematically explored through these six interrelated dimensions. We present the compass, its theoretical foundations, methodology, and potential research applications. By offering a standardized approach to evaluating philosophical wellbeing, the PHC creates new possibilities for interdisciplinary research while acknowledging that this questionnaire is not meant to replace the depth of the qualitative SMILE_PH dialogue, but rather to facilitate it.

Automation of the judicial process has been a subject of debate among researchers and policymakers for a considerable period. Partial automation of the judicial process always involves interaction between humans (judges, jurors, and other parties involved in court proceedings) and machines (software programs). These human-machine collaborations can be considered ‘anthrobotic systems’ and we argue they should be designed with an understanding of the specific groups they are intended to serve. This article proposes a philosophical-conceptual framework that could contribute to a socially and ethically sound automation of court procedures. The automation of court procedures should be to a certain extent optimized for the legal tradition or group ethos in which it is developed and implemented. The concept of esprit de corps can be a useful tool for introducing more pluralism in the design of anthrobotic systems.

What does it mean to become a sound mind in a healthy body and harmonious environment? This engaging introduction to the new field of philosophical health, written by its forerunner, presents the core tenets of the discipline. It explains in clear and elegant prose how a reflexive practice of sense-making can create a eudynamic balance between six existential senses: body, self, belonging, possibility, purpose, and the philosophical sense.

Luis de Miranda, inspired by nearly a decade of practice as a philosophical counsellor – with individuals, groups, institutions, NGO's and corporations – offers a pragmatic open system that is supported with evidence from psychological science, various philosophical traditions or contemporary theories, as well as fascinating real stories from world wisdom.

Meaning in action is clearly the new way ahead for philosophy, rediscovered here as the responsible and practical big sister – if not queen – of all disciplines and ways of life. The international philosophical health movement is the long-awaited response, globally and locally, to the overall confusion the world fell into due to mindless processes and unexamined behaviour. This book shows us how, in a spirit of compossibility and oneness in diversity we now can, at last, intercreate a harmonious, rich, and diverse planetary civilisation.