Well-being : its meaning, measurement, and moral importance
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Well-being : its meaning, measurement, and moral importance
（Clarendon paperbacks）
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1988
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Originally published: 1986
"First issued in paperback 1988"--T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. [391]-402
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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