Three Kinds of Goodness for a Person
tarafından
 
King, Owen Christopher, author.

Başlık
Three Kinds of Goodness for a Person

Yazar
King, Owen Christopher, author.

ISBN
9780438091115

Yazar Ek Girişi
King, Owen Christopher, author.

Fiziksel Tanımlama
1 electronic resource (145 pages)

Genel Not
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: A.
 
Advisors: Justin D'Arms Committee members: Donald Hubin; Robert Kraut; Sigrun Svavarsdottir.

Özet
I argue that three types of goods for a person---the goodness of her life, her well-being at a time, and the objects that are desirable for her---do not stand in the straightforward, intuitive relations philosophers have commonly assumed. I begin by developing an account of what I call value contribution principles. A value contribution principle says roughly that an increase in some property, all else equal, implies an increase in some value. Value contribution principles express relatively weak but nonetheless important evaluative claims. With near unanimity, philosophers have assumed, in essence, that a value contribution principle holds between a person's well-being at a time and the goodness of her life, i.e., that an increase in her well-being during some period, all else equal, yields a better life for her on the whole. I argue that this is incorrect. Similarly, I argue that it is not the case that greater realization of what is desirable for a person, all else equal, increases her well-being. The result is that our notion of what is good for a person is less united and more equivocal than commonly recognized.

Notlar
School code: 0168

Konu Başlığı
Philosophy.

Tüzel Kişi Ek Girişi
The Ohio State University. Philosophy.

Elektronik Erişim
http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqm&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:10871331


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