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The author offers answers to three central questions about well-being: the best way to understand it; whether it can be measured; and where it should fit in moral and political thought.This is a paperback reissue of the title published in hardback in 1986.
Part 1 Utilitarian accounts: state of mind or state of the world; - the desire account developed; objective accounts; perfectionism and the ends of life. Part 2 Measurement: are there incommensurable values?; the case of one person; the case of many persons. Part 3 Moral importance: from prudence to morality; equal respect; fairness; rights; desert; distribution.
'the finest most encyclopedic book devoted to understanding the nature of human well-being and its moral importance written this century' David Sobel, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
Brian Vickers, Zurich; founding President of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric) Vickers, Brian (Professor of English and Renaissance Literature, Professor of English and Renaissance Literature, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
H. C. G. Matthew, Oxford) Matthew, H. C. G. (late Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford, and Fellow, late Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford, and Fellow, St Hugh's College
J. L. Austin, University of Oxford) Austin, J. L. (late White's Professor of Moral Philosophy, late White's Professor of Moral Philosophy, J. I. Austin, J. O. Urmson, G. J. Warnock, Geoffrey J. Warnock, James O. Urmson
Ellen T. Harris, University of Chicago) Harris, Ellen T. (Chairman of the Music Department and Professor of Music, Chairman of the Music Department and Professor of Music