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Happiness as Subjective Well-Being: An Aristotelian Critique

Happiness as Subjective Well-Being: An Aristotelian Critique

Tom Angier, “Happiness as Subjective Well-Being: An Aristotelian Critique,” Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 76, no. 1 (2020): 149–80, https://doi.org/10.17990/RPF/2020_76_1_0149.

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Happiness as Subjective Well-Being: An Aristotelian Critique

Type Journal Article
Author Tom Angier
Rights © 2020 Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia
Volume 76
Issue 1
Pages 149-180
Publication Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia
ISSN 0870-5283
Date 2020
DOI 10.17990/RPF/2020_76_1_0149
Language English
Abstract In this paper I systematically criticise Feldman’s and Haybron’s theories of happiness as subjective well-being [SWB]. Having elaborated their trichotomy between SWB, welfare and virtue, I then outline Aristotle’s rival ethical schema, which construes these as aspects within an inextricable, organic whole, viz. eudaimonia. In order to vindicate this rival schema, I begin with four thought-experiments: Feldman’s Bertha, the indoctrinated housewife, Haybron’s ‘happy slave’, and two of my own. I argue that these demonstrate – contra Feldman and Haybron, but in line with Aristotle – that happiness is essentially conditioned by objective welfare-goods. I then move on to how such goods are essentially conditioned, in turn, by the virtues. It follows that happiness itself is both logically and ontologically conditioned by the practice of the virtues. Although this Aristotelian conclusion faces charges of being moralistic and counter-evidential, it can overcome these, thereby securing – pace Feldman and Haybron – an authentic, sustainable conception of happiness.
Date Added 4/30/2020, 12:02:49 AM
Modified 4/30/2020, 11:43:36 AM

Tags:

  • Aristotle,
  • happiness,
  • virtue,
  • welfare
  • well-being,

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