Well-being: From Not-Being to Reality

The category of well-being is not a real abstraction of classical capitalist economy. Nascent emergence of an interdisciplinary well-being discourse gives testimony to formation of well-being as socially constructed object. The objective of this paper is consideration of ontological matureness stages of well-being as a social reality object. The discursive objects formation theory by M. Foucault, the knowledge transformation model by I. Nonaka and H. Takeuchi and the paradigm analysis of social reality objects according to G. Burrell and G. Morgan are used as a methodological base of the study. The result is substantiation of social value-creating entrepreneurial action as a factor which makes provision for a reliable ontological status of well-being. Interdisciplinary studies of well-being are hypothecated as means of well-being social construction by force of its representation in the subjects of various sciences. Reducing well-being to its representations means nonexistence of well-being as autonomous object of social reality. Instead, multiparadigm approach enables cognition of well-being as a kind of individuals` activity at the various stages on the well-being's way toward its own reality.