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Well-Being as Value Fulfillment - How We Can Help Each Other to Live Well (Hardcover)
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Well-Being as Value Fulfillment - How We Can Help Each Other to Live Well (Hardcover)
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What is human well-being? Valerie Tiberius argues that our lives go
well to the extent that we succeed in terms of what matters to us
emotionally, reflectively, and over the long term. In other words,
well-being consists in fulfilling or realizing our appropriate
values over time. In the first half of the book, Tiberius sets out
the theory of well-being as value fulfilment. She explains what
valuing is and what it is to fulfill values over time. In the
second half of the book she applies the theory to the problem of
how to help others, particularly our friends. We don't always know
how to provide the help we know others need; but we also have the
problem of knowing what help they need in the first place, and this
is a problem that requires ethical thinking. Tiberius argues that
when we want to help others achieve greater well-being, we should
pay attention to their values. This entails attending to how
others' values fit together, how they understand what it means to
succeed in terms of these values, and how things could change for
them over time. Being a good and helpful friend, then, requires
cultivating some habits of humility that overcome our tendency to
think we know what's good for other people without really
understanding what it's like to be them.
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