ISBN:
9780192563958
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (260 pages)
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DDC:
306
Keywords:
Quality of life
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Aristotle-Criticism and interpretation
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Richard Kraut presents a new theory of human well-being. Kraut's principal idea, Aristotelian in spirit, is that 'external goods' have at most an indirect bearing on the quality of our lives. A good internal life - one with quality emotional, intellectual, social, and perceptual experiences - is what well-being consists in.
Abstract:
Cover -- The Quality of Life: Aristotle Revised -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1: The Oyster and the Experience Machine: Two Puzzles in Value Theory -- 1. Aristotle, the oyster, and the experience machine -- 2. Plato, Aristotle, and the value of virtue -- 3. Rational egoism rejected -- 4. Well-being and the quality of life -- 5. Inferior responses to McTaggart -- 6. Incommensurable superiority -- 7. The richness of human experience -- 8. Sidgwick and the definition of pleasure -- 9. Mill and the quality of pleasure -- 10. Why grow up? -- 11. The lives of plants and the value of pleasure -- 12. The truth in hedonism: experientialism -- 2: Well-Being and Ethical Virtue -- 1. Well-being and lists -- 2. Methodology, philosophy, and flourishing -- 3. Lists, good-making, and the nature of well-being -- 4. Experientialism -- 5. Hell and experience -- 6. Experience as a dependent good -- 7. The good in being a good human being -- 8. Being virtuous for the wrong reason: Kantian concerns -- 9. Do bad people have bad lives? -- 10. Is pleasure always good? -- 3: Experientialism and the Experience Machine -- Part One -- 1. Strong and weak experientialism -- 2. Trade-offs -- 3. Moore and the experience machine -- 4. Music in the experience machine -- 5. Altruistic uses of the experience machine -- 6. The illusion of climbing a mountain -- 7. Self-deception and social illusions -- 8. The rest of one's life -- 9. Food, chess, and tennis -- Part Two -- 10. Objections to the experience machine -- 11. Free choice -- 12. Contact with a deeper reality -- 13. Fictional worlds -- 14. Crisp's revised version -- 15. Rescued from death -- 16. Intellectual intuition and the ascent to beauty -- 17. Zombies -- Part Three -- 18. Well-being and the satisfaction of desire -- 19. Nagel on the betrayal of friends -- 20. Feeling loved and being loved.
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