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SUMMARY:Happiness as a psychological good
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LOCATION:arts west\, west wing\, Melbourne\, Australia
DESCRIPTION:<p>Theories of happiness generally divide into those that analyse &lsquo\;happiness&rsquo\; as a purely descriptive psychological term\, and those that take &lsquo\;happiness&rsquo\; to be an evaluative term roughly synonymous with &lsquo\;leading a good life.&rsquo\; I argue that happiness is most accurately and usefully analysed as a fusion of these. Specifically\, happiness is the psychological state\, whatever it is\, that we ought to seek for its own sake. Substantive first-order debates about the nature of happiness are then best understood as implicit disputes about exactly which of a range of semantically eligible states individuals have most prudential reason to pursue. I argue that this may vary (somewhat) from individual to individual and hence that happiness is differentially realizable: the nature of happiness may differ (somewhat) from person to person. This contrasts with orthodox &lsquo\;circumscriptionist&rsquo\; analyses\, according to which there is just one way to be happy.</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Jenny Judge:
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