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Alan H. Goldman

Life's Values

Pleasure, Happiness, Well-Being, and Meaning

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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,… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-882973-7
  • EAN: 9780198829737
  • Produktnummer: 27632153
  • Verlag: OUP Oxford
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 198 S.
  • Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D1.4 cm 389 g
  • Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 389

Über den Autor


Alan H. Goldman earned his B.A. at Yale and his Ph.D. at Columbia. He has taught at the University of Miami for 25 years and at the College of William & Mary for 15 years. Prior to this, he worked at Columbia, Ohio University, and University of Idaho, held visiting positions at University of Michigan, University of Colorado, and University of Auckland, and also a post-doctoral fellowship at Princeton. Goldman is the author of nine books, the most recent beingPractical Rules, Reasons from Within and Philosophy and the Novel, and of roughly 150 articles in epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics.

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