The Passing of Temporal Well-Being by Ben Bramble - 9781138713932

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The Passing of Temporal Well-BeingAuthor(s): Ben Bramble\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138713932, 978-1138713932\nSynopsis\nThe 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:\n\n lifetime well-being, [url] how good a persons life was for him or her considered as a whole, and\n\n temporal well-being, [url] 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).\n\nMany theories have been offered of each of these kinds of well-being. A common view is that lifetime well-being is in some way constructed out of temporal well-being. This book argues that much of this literature is premised on a mistake. Lifetg