Desire-Fulfillment Theory

In Guy Fletcher (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Well-Being. Routledge. pp. 135-147 (2016)
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Explains the desire-fulfillment theory of well-being, its history, its development, its varieties, its advantages, and its challenges

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