Abstract
This paper argues that a philosophy of life can provide a new conception of the good which can provide a useful framework for the resolution of political and ethical disputes. Building off Nietzsche, Spinoza, Bergson, Foucault and Deleuze, it outlines what is central to life philosophy and how these thinkers can be represented as providing a new basis for normative political philosophy which avoids both mechanistic atomism and teleological organicism. It goes on to explain how such an approach was developed by economists such as J.A. Hobson in the welfare state liberal tradition in the early twentieth century and how life philosophy can be utilised to support a revised welfare liberalism today, re-establishing a revised post-Keynesianism as the basis of a global institutionalism for the twenty-first century.