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SUMMARY:Philosophy Colloquium: Steven Wall\, University of Arizona\, and David Sobel\, Syracuse University\, "Well-being and its Worth"
DESCRIPTION:Steven Wall\, University of Arizona\, and David Sobel\, Syracuse University \nWell-being and its Worth\nPhilosophical discussions of well-being aspire to a certain measure of comprehensiveness.  Imagine someone saying that well-being is strictly a function of the pleasure and pain in our lives\, while granting that there are other things\, such as achievement or knowledge\, that contribute to intrinsically making our lives good for us.  A natural response to such a view would be to say that it mistakes a part for the whole.  Well-being encompasses all the components of what is good for a person\, not just a select few.  To be sure\, we often distinguish narrow from broad notions of well-being because narrow notions are useful for various purposes\, as the notion of medical well-being is useful for health care\, even though no one thinks that medical well-being exhausts what is good for us.  But the broad notion of well-being is the fundamental notion.  With this in mind\, we may be led to accept what we shall call the common supposition\, which holds that well-being is the most comprehensive assessment of what contributes to our good.\nThis comprehensive assessment is not the most comprehensive assessment one can make of a human life\, for one can assess human lives in terms of all their good-making features including\, for example\, their contribution to the lives of others or to impersonal values or even the aesthetic properties that they exhibit\, as well as those that concern our own good.  But when it comes to our good – well-being\, on the common supposition – represents the most comprehensive assessment of a life.  This is a very common thought in the philosophical literature on well-being\, and it can seem to be irresistible.  Nevertheless\, in this paper\, we want to present a case for rejecting it.  We will argue that a different notion\, that of the personal goodness of a life\, has a stronger claim than that of well-being to being the perspective from which the most comprehensive assessment of the good of our lives for us is made.  The trick will be to show that the personal goodness of a life remains fixed on considerations that contribute to what is good for us\, as opposed to other good-making features of a life\, while not collapsing into a conception of well-being itself.\nThe main argument that we will present in support of the claim that personal goodness is the most comprehensive standpoint for assessing what is good for us appeals to a distinction between well-being and its worth.  We will try to show that when we reflect on what is good for us\, or good for those we care about\, we should attend not only to considerations of our (or their) well-being\, but also to considerations that affect the worth of our (or their) well-being.  And we will try to show that the worth of well-being is not a proper part of well-being\, but an independent consideration\, yet one that matters for determining what is good for us\, and not just what is good simpliciter.\nFor more information on the speakers visit the following links \nSteven Wall: https://philosophy.arizona.edu/person/steven-wall\nDavid Sobel: https://artsandsciences.syracuse.edu/people/faculty/sobel-david/#Biography
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