Well-Being, Agency and Freedom: The Dewey Lectures 1984
Author(s)
Sen, Amartya
Abstract
In these lectures I have tried to explore some of the implications of seeing persons from two different perspectives, viz., well-being and agency, neither of which can subsume the other. A second objective of these lectures is to examine a set of meta-ethical issues, making use of an “informational” approach to moral analysis which focuses on the admissibility and use of different types of information in moral valuation. The first lecture is concerned primarily with meta-ethical issues, the second with well-being and the third with agency.
