Critical realism and the ontology of persons

In this article, Roy Bhaskar suggests how critical realism might facilitate the understanding of persons and improve their lives. He considers the implicit potentialities of persons and how they can achieve their potentialities (satisfy their dharma). He proposes a way to approach the movement towards the good, or eudaimonistic, society; asking how we could do things differently to better achieve circumstances that are conducive to human...