Focuses on the first question posed by Griffin in his book “Well-Being”: what is the best way to understand well-being? Sumner is unpersuaded of the merits of a desire account of prudential value as posited by Griffin. The happiness theory of prudential value needs much more elaboration before its prospects can be adequately assessed. But it should be clear by now even on a basis of a very schematic outline how such a theory might be “something in between” mental-state and desire theories, avoiding both the solipsism of the former and the disengagement of the latter.
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Well-Being and Morality: Essays in Honour of James Griffin
