Well-Being: Its Meaning, Measurement and Moral Importance

by James Griffin

Overview

The author offers answers to three central questions about well-being: the best way to understand it; whether it can be measured; and where it should fit in moral and political thought. This is a paperback reissue of the title published in hardback in 1986.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191520068
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/18/1986
Series:	Clarendon Paperbacks
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Lexile:	1250L (what's this?)
File size:	642 KB

Editorial Reviews

"Highly recommended for philosophy, economics, political science, and moral education collections. For those who love the creative edge, it is must reading."—Choice

"There is...a tendency in some utilitarian writings to neglect or deny the complexity of ethical thought and practice. James Griffin, by contrast, is alive to this complexity....[and] suggests a more sensitive and less doctrinaire utilitarianism than many have thought possible."—Times Literary Supplement

"Griffin examines a wide range of issues in moral philosophy in an extremely thoughtful and constructive way. His book is one which anyone working in the subject could consult with profit, especially for its thorough and perceptive discussion of how the idea of well-being is best understood for the purposes of utilitarian or non-utilitarian moral theory."—The Philosophical Review

"...this is one of the most thorough discussions of well-being. I'll certainly recommend it to my students."—Boran Beric, Brooklyn College and Hofstra University

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