1st Edition

The Passing of Temporal Well-Being

By Ben Bramble Copyright 2018
72 Pages
by Routledge

72 Pages
by Routledge

72 Pages
by Routledge

The philosophical study of well-being concerns what makes lives good for their subjects. It is now standard among philosophers to distinguish between two kinds of well-being: · lifetime well-being, i.e., how good a person’s life was for him or her considered as a whole, and · temporal well-being, i.e., how well off someone was, or how they fared, at a particular moment in time (... Read more

1. Introduction. 2. The Normative Significance Arguement.. 3. The No Credible Theory Arguement. 4. Six objections. 5. Conclusion and implications. Index

Biography

Ben Bramble is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.