The Passing of Temporal Well-Being
Ben Bramble, "The Passing of Temporal Well-Being "
English | ISBN: 1138713937 | 2018 | 72 pages | PDF | 497 KB
English | ISBN: 1138713937 | 2018 | 72 pages | PDF | 497 KB
The philosophical study of well-being concerns what makes lives good for their subjects. It is now standard among philosophers to distinguish between two kinds of well-being:
· lifetime well-being, i.e., how good a person’s life was for him or her considered as a whole, and
· temporal well-being, i.e., how well off someone was, or how they fared, at a particular moment in time (momentary well-being) or over a period of time longer than a moment but shorter than a whole life, say, a day, month, year, or chapter of a life (periodic well-being).
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