Well-being : its meaning, measurement, and moral importance /

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Author / Creator:Griffin, James, 1933-
Imprint:Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford Univ. Press, ©1986.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 412 pages)
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-402) and index.
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Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Griffin, James, 1933- Well-being. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford Univ. Press, ©1986 0198249039 9780198249030

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505 0 |a Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One: Meaning -- I. Utilitarian Accounts: State of Mind or State of the World? -- 1. Mental state accounts -- 2. Sidgwick's compromise -- 3. The actual-desire account -- 4. The informed-desire account -- 5. Troubles with the informed-desire account -- 6. Is there something between mental state and desire accounts? -- II. Utilitarian Accounts: The Desire Account Developed -- 1. How may we restrict the desire account? -- 2. Why we should resist restricting it more -- 3. How value and desire are related -- 4. A formal account. 
505 8 |a 5. Maximization and the unity of life -- 6. A (restricted) interest theory of value -- 7. Is this account still utilitarian? -- III. Objective Accounts -- 1. Two concepts of well-being -- 2. The need account -- 3. Can we give a tolerably clear sense to 'basic need'? -- 4. The link between need and obligation -- 5. Avoiding distortions to moral thought -- 6. A flexible need account -- 7. Neutrality, objectivity, and moral depth -- IV. Perfectionism and the Ends of Life -- 1. Prudential perfectionism -- 2. Moral perfectionism -- 3. The ends of life -- 4. How morality fits into prudence. 
505 8 |a 5. What is the good point buried in perfectionism? -- 6. The primacy of prudential value theory -- Part Two: Measurement -- V. Are There Incommensurable Values? -- 1. On measuring well-being -- 2. Moral incommensurables and prudential incommensurables -- 3. Forms of incommensurability: (a) Incomparability -- 4. (b) Trumping -- 5. (c) Weighting -- 6. (d) Discontinuity -- 7. (e) Pluralism -- VI. The Case of One person -- 1. Is well-being the sort of thing that can be measured at all? -- 2. An ordinal scale of well-being -- 3. Pockets of cardinality. 
505 8 |a 4. What powers of measurement do we actually need? -- VII. The Case of Many Persons -- 1. The link between conceptions of well-being and problems of comparability -- 2. A natural proposal for comparability and a problem with it -- 3. Can the problem be solved? -- 4. Interpersonal comparisons of well-being -- 5. Intrapersonal intertemporal comparisons -- 6. Comparability on a social scale -- Part Three: Moral Importance -- VIII. From Prudence to Morality -- 1. Morality as something alien -- 2. (a) Morality and self-interest -- 3. (b) Morality and personal aims -- 4. (c) Morality and rationality. 
505 8 |a 5. The nature of the self and the source of morality -- IX. Equal Respect -- 1. Equal respect and psychological realism -- 2. The utilitarian view of equal respect -- 3. The contractualist view of equal respect -- 4. The two views compared -- 5. A view of equal respect that allows some partiality -- X. Fairness -- 1. Two problems: fairness and the breadth of the moral outlook -- 2. The consequentialist's problem of .nding a broad enough outlook -- 3. The free-rider problem and a minimal solution -- 4. The possibility of tougher, Kantian solutions -- 5. The solution of an agent-centred deontology. 
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