Welfarism

Authored by: Dale Dorsey

The Routledge Handbook Of Philosophy Of Well-Being

Print publication date:  August  2015
Online publication date:  July  2015

Print ISBN: 9780415714532
eBook ISBN: 9781315682266
Adobe ISBN: 9781317402657

10.4324/9781315682266.ch34

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Abstract

“Welfare” is an evaluative term: it is the index by which we measure the goodness of lives for the people who live them. Someone with a better life just is someone with a higher degree of welfare.

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