Welfare

In John Skorupski (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Ethics. Routledge. pp. 645-655 (2010)
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An introduction to the philosophical debate over what makes a person's life go well. It attempts to clarify the question of welfare and to explore several of the most important answers, while displaying the main contours of the dialectic.

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