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TY - CHAP
T1 - Philosophical Taxonomies of Well-Being
AU - Clark, Samuel John Allen
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Routledge Handbook of Wellbeing on [date of publication], available online: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Wellbeing/Galvin/p/book/9781138850101
PY - 2018/5/15
Y1 - 2018/5/15
N2 - There are more adequate but less influential attempts at taxonomy in Parfit's style: they add extra taxa, clarify internal distinctions, and move boundaries. This chapter offers some interesting distinctions among theories of well-being, and considers some of the contrasts, relations, and degrees of freedom or constraint on theorizing which they allow to see. It considers a widely used taxonomy of theories of well-being which picks out some important possibilities. The chapter offers a different and more expansive way to map the territory, considers some of the many distinctions and connections among theories, and suggests families of theories of well-being. It shows that suggestion into practice by distinguishing between Empirical and Normative, Descriptive and Revisionary, Reflexive and Non-Reflexive, and Compositional and Additive Theories, and by breaking up the much-used but incoherent subjective/objective distinction into various distinctions. The chapter focuses on questions of Epistemic Authority, Political Authority, and political perfectionism.
AB - There are more adequate but less influential attempts at taxonomy in Parfit's style: they add extra taxa, clarify internal distinctions, and move boundaries. This chapter offers some interesting distinctions among theories of well-being, and considers some of the contrasts, relations, and degrees of freedom or constraint on theorizing which they allow to see. It considers a widely used taxonomy of theories of well-being which picks out some important possibilities. The chapter offers a different and more expansive way to map the territory, considers some of the many distinctions and connections among theories, and suggests families of theories of well-being. It shows that suggestion into practice by distinguishing between Empirical and Normative, Descriptive and Revisionary, Reflexive and Non-Reflexive, and Compositional and Additive Theories, and by breaking up the much-used but incoherent subjective/objective distinction into various distinctions. The chapter focuses on questions of Epistemic Authority, Political Authority, and political perfectionism.
KW - objective list theories
KW - desire fulfillment theories
KW - epistemic authority
KW - perfectionist policy
KW - political perfectionism
KW - political authority
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781138850101
T3 - Routledge Handbooks
BT - Routledge Handbook on Well-Being
A2 - Galvin, Kathleen
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -