Life's values: pleasure, happiness, well-being, and meaning
In Life's Values Alan H. Goldman seeks to explain what is of ultimate value in individual lives. The proposed candidates include pleasure, happiness, meaning, and well-being. Only the latter is the all-inclusive category of personal value, and it consists in the satisfaction of deep rational de...
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| Zusammenfassung: | In Life's Values Alan H. Goldman seeks to explain what is of ultimate value in individual lives. The proposed candidates include pleasure, happiness, meaning, and well-being. Only the latter is the all-inclusive category of personal value, and it consists in the satisfaction of deep rational desires. Since individuals' rational desires differ, the book cannot dictate what will maximize your own well-being and what in particular you ought to pursue. However it can tell you to make your desires rational (that is, informed and coherent) and it can also explain the nature of these states that typically enter into well-being: pleasure, happiness, and meaning being typically partial causes as well as effects of well-being. All are by-products of satisfying rational desires and rarely successfully aimed at directly. Pleasure comes in sensory, intentional, and pure feeling forms, each with an opposite in pain or distress. Happiness in its primary sense is an emotion, not a constant state as some philosophers assume, and in secondary senses a mood (disposition to have an emotion) or temperament (disposition to be in a mood). Meaning in life is a matter of events in one's life fitting into intelligible narratives. Events in narratives are understood teleologically as well as causally, in terms of outcomes aimed at as well antecedent events. So, in the briefest terms, this book distinguishes and relates pleasure, happiness, well-being, and meaning, and relates each to motivation and value |
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Introduction 1
Pleasure 7
Musical Prelude 7
Preview 10
The Nature and Types of Pleasure 13
Pleasure and Motivation 25
Pleasure and Sex 31
The Value of Pleasure 35
Summary 41
Happiness 43
Preview 43
Opposing Views 44
Emotions 50
Happiness 56
Happiness and Well-Being 61
Relation to Other Emotions 66
Summary 69
Well-Being 71
Criteria for Theory Choice 71
Other Accounts 72
Desire Satisfaction 85
Objections 97
Meaning in Life 116
Preview 116
Senses and Non-Senses of “Meaning” 118
The Meaning (or Lack of It) of Life 121
Meaning in Life 124
Paradigms of Meaningful and Meaningless Lives 132
Sources of Meaning 136
Interpretations 139
The Value of Meaning in Life 143
Objective Value 147
Summary 152
Conclusions
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Appendix: Desires 155
Review of Criteria 155
My Account 156
The Reductionist Account 158
Natural Kinds and Functions 160
Sufficiency 163
Explanatory Power 165
Neurophysical Reduction 170
Concluding Remarks 175
Bibliography 177
Index 183
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