However one understands “good life,” anyone would agree that “good” matters and “life” matters in some senses that keep us revering some notion of good and life. We all want a “good life.” We all feel that there is some sense of good life that is intrinsically appealing.

One might vest the appeal of a “good life” in a conception of flourishing life; and even want to explicate some grandly appealing sense of wholly flourishing.

A good life is that which is drawn into the appeal of a flourishing life, yet only by making the good become that flourishing. And flourishing is drawn into the appeal of wholly being so, only by making that fulfillingly actual.

A self-given aspiration for wholly flourishing life can be intrinsically appealing because one intrinsically loves learning or creative accomplishment or high-scale fulfillment.

To me, intrinsic appeals can be found to emerge from the aspiring vitality of oneself—any self (potentially). More abstractly: intrinsic appeals can be found to emerge from the self-enhancive nature of selfness or Self that each of us is.

So, then, intrinsic appeal may derive from a conception of the natural self-enhanciveness (enspiration) of human being or vitality of human intelligence.

One chooses terms—the most durably appealing; then makes the most of The Appeal. I am for thriving life. I am for flourishing good.

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