Well-Being as Value Fulfillment - How We Can Help Each Other to Live Well Tiberius Valerie Professor of Philosophy and Department Chair University of MinnesotaPevná vazba
Well-Being as Value Fulfillment - How We Can Help Each Other to Live Well Tiberius Valerie Professor of Philosophy and Department Chair University of MinnesotaPevná vazba What is human well-being? In…
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Well-Being as Value Fulfillment - How We Can Help Each Other to Live Well Tiberius Valerie Professor of Philosophy and Department Chair University of MinnesotaPevná vazba
What is human well-being? In other words, well-being consists in fulfilling or realizing our appropriate values over time. Valerie Tiberius argues that our lives go well to the extent that we succeed in terms of what matters to us emotionally, reflectively, and over the long term.
She explains what valuing is and what it is to fulfill values over time. In the first half of this book, Tiberius sets out the theory of well-being as value fulfilment. In the second half of the book she applies the theory to the problem of how to help others, particularly our friends.
We don't always know how to provide the help we know others need; but we also have the problem of knowing what help they need in the first place, and this is a problem that requires ethical thinking. Tiberius argues that when we want to help others achieve greater well-being, we should pay attention to their values. This entails