Value-theory

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Value-theory the Good Life

• Section 1
• Pleasure, Happiness Flourishing

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Pleasure

• Pleasure enjoyment are generally agreed to be
  intrinsically valuable.
• Thought-experiments help show that hedonists are
  mistaken to claim that nothing but pleasure is
  intrinsically valuable.
• Robert Nozicks Experience Machine.

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Happiness

• Happiness, like enjoyment, is either a feeling or
  an attitude, although its older meaning is a
  life of blessedness.
• As such, it is almost always desirable or a
  blessing.

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But

• A life of happiness, like a life of pleasure,
  could lack or omit much that could make it more
  desirable.

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Flourishing

• The flourishing of a creature involves the
  development of its essential capacities.
• Thus human flourishing involves the development
  of essential human capacities (whether
  distinctive or non-distinctive).

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Flourishing

• Health, autonomy, accomplishment happiness will
  normally all be present in a flourishing life.
• But there can be exceptions, a flourishing life
  can be lacking with respect to health or autonomy
  or accomplishment or happiness.

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Autonomy

• Autonomy has a key place within human well-being,
  need not be regarded as comprising an
  independent principle.

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Autonomy

• Usually plays a crucial part in a persons
  flourishing, but it does not always trump other
  dimensions of well-being, can sometimes rightly
  be over-ridden.