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  title info:
    title: Life's values
    sub title: pleasure, happiness, well-being, and meaning
  name:
    name part: Goldman, Alan H.
    name part: 1945-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 186 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: In Life's Values, Alan H. Goldman seeks to explain what is of ultimate value in individual lives. The proposed candidates include pleasure, happiness, meaning and well-being. Only the latter is the all-inclusive category of personal value, and it consists in the satisfaction of deep rational desires. Since individuals' rational desires differ, the book cannot dictate what will maximize your own well-being and what in particular you ought to pursue. However it can tell you to make your desires rational (that is, informed and coherent) and it can also explain the nature of these states that typically enter into well-being, pleasure, happiness and meaning being typically partial causes as well as effects of well-being. All are by-products of satisfying rational desires and rarely successfully aimed at directly. Pleasure comes in sensory, intentional and pure feeling forms, each with an opposite in pain or distress. Happiness in its primary sense is an emotion, not a constant state as some philosophers assume, and in secondary senses a mood (disposition to have an emotion) or temperament (disposition to be in a mood). Meaning in life is a matter of events in one's life fitting into intelligible narratives. Events in narratives are understood teleologically as well as causally, in terms of outcomes aimed at as well antecedent events. So, in the briefest terms, this book distinguishes and relates pleasure, happiness, well-being, and meaning, and relates each to motivation and value.
  table of contents: Pleasure -- Happiness -- Well-being -- Meaning in life -- Conclusions -- Appendix: desires.
  note: Alan H. Goldman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Happiness
  subject:
    topic: Meaning (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Life
  subject:
    topic: Pleasure
  subject:
    topic: Values
  subject:
    topic: Well-being
  classification: BD431 .G65 2018
  classification: 158
  identifier: 0198829736
  identifier: 9780198829737
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 180619
    record change date: 20190718162225.0
    record identifier: in00004057231