The Passing of Temporal Well-Being - Couverture rigide

Bramble, Ben

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1138713937 ISBN 13 : 9781138713932

Editeur : Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

The philosophical study of well-being concerns what makes lives good for their subjects. It is now standard among philosophers to distinguish between two kinds of well-being:

- lifetime well-being, i.e., how good a person's life was for him or her considered as a whole, and

- temporal well-being, i.e., how well off someone was, or how they fared, at a particular moment in time (momentary well-being) or over a period of time longer than a moment but shorter than a whole life, say, a day, month, year, or chapter of a life (periodic well-being).

Many theories have been offered of each of these kinds of well-being. A common view is that lifetime well-being is in some way constructed out of temporal well-being. This book argues that much of this literature is premised on a mistake. Lifetime well-being cannot be constructed out of temporal well-being, because there is no such thing as temporal well-being. The only genuine kind of well-being is lifetime well-being.

The Passing of Temporal Well-Being will prove essential reading for professional philosophers, especially in moral and political philosophy. It will also be of interest to welfare economists and policy-makers who appeal to well-being

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ben Bramble is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1138713937
• ISBN 13: 9781138713932
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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