A Working Test for Well-being

被引:4
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作者
Fuchs, Tobias A. [1 ]
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[1] Brown Univ, Providence, RI 02912 USA
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10.1017/S0953820817000140
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B [哲学、宗教];
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01 ; 0101 ;
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In order to make progress in the welfare debate, we need a way to decide whether certain cases depict changes in well-being or not. I argue that an intuitive idea by Nagel has received insufficient attention in the literature and can be developed into a test to that purpose. I discuss a version of such a test proposed by Brad Hooker, and argue that it is unsuccessful. I then present my own test, which relies on the claim that if compassion is fitting towards a person due to her having (or lacking) certain properties, then we know that having (or lacking) those properties affect the person's well-being. I show how my test yields results in cases of deception, which have implications for central questions in the literature on well-being, such as whether what you do not experience can affect your well-being (the so-called Experience Requirement).
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页码:129 / 142
页数:14
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