The Passing of Temporal Well-Being
Author | : Ben Bramble |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 95 |
Release | : 2018-03-09 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781351818421 |
ISBN-13 | : 1351818422 |
Rating | : 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Passing of Temporal Well-Being written by Ben Bramble and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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