The Passing of Temporal Well-Being (Paperback)

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

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Focus on Philosophy
Release date:	December 2020
First published:	2018
Authors:	Ben Bramble
Dimensions:	216 x 138mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	64
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-73515-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > General Promotions
LSN:	0-367-73515-6
Barcode:	9780367735159

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