The good life as the life in touch with the good
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Lovett, Adam and Riedener, Stefan. (2024). The good life as the life in touch with the good. Philosophical Studies: an international journal for philosophy in the analytic tradition. 181, pp. 1141-1165. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-024-02136-4
| Authors | Lovett, Adam and Riedener, Stefan |
|---|---|
| Abstract | What makes your life go well for you? In this paper, we give an account of welfare. Our core idea is simple. There are impersonally good and bad things out there: things that are good or bad period, not (or not only) good or bad for someone. The life that is good for you is the life in contact with the good. We’ll understand the relevant notion of ‘contact’ here in terms of manifestation: you’re in contact with a value when it is manifest in parts of your life or parts of your life are manifest in it. So, the more the good is manifest in your life, or your life manifest in the good, the better for you. The more the bad is manifest in your life, or your life manifest in the bad, the worse for you. We’ll argue that this account is extensionally adequate: it explains the welfare value of achievements, friendships, knowledge, pleasures and virtues. Moreover, it has a number of explanatory virtues: it’s unified, elegant and explanatorily powerful. So, we’ll suggest, it’s an excellent account of welfare, and in many ways superior to its main competitors. |
| Keywords | Welfare; Hedonism; Desire satisfactionism; Objective list theories ; Hybrid theories ; Locative analysis |
| Year | 01 Jan 2024 |
| Journal | Philosophical Studies: an international journal for philosophy in the analytic tradition |
| Journal citation | 181, pp. 1141-1165 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media B.V. |
| ISSN | 0031-8116 |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-024-02136-4 |
| Web address (URL) | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11098-024-02136-4 |
| Open access | Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access |
| Page range | 1141-1165 |
| Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
| Output status | Published |
| Publication dates | |
| 29 Apr 2024 | |
| Publication process dates | |
| Accepted | 03 Mar 2024 |
| Deposited | 03 Sep 2024 |
| Additional information | © The Author(s) 2024 |
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| Place of publication | Netherlands |
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