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The Passing of Temporal Well-Being - Routledge Focus on Philosophy
Bramble, Ben (Chq 3611 returned in post - cancelled)
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
100 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 6, 2018 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138713932 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 64 |
| Dimensions | 223 × 145 × 12 mm · 194 g |
| Language | English |
