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Many welfare perfectionists make the same (to my mind) mistake, in saying welfare is the development, rather than the exercise, of virtues (or our ‘nature’). Getting less sick isn’t itself well-being!
It will be funny when they instead root for the team from that city of sexual deviance and drug abuse
Yeah. Think about the number of physicians’ and biologists’ concepts for designating health, and the much larger number for disorders. But it’s not only about the number of concepts. For any spectrum 0-n where there’s a good number or range (eg 98.6-ish), there are outcomes both too low & too high
There are many more ways to be uncool than to be cool. Aristotle and Tolstoy have the ratio in the right direction
Subjectivist theories of well-being explain how you can’t be alienated from what’s good for you. But virtuous activity is fundamentally first-personal—if you’re alienated from what you’re doing—you aren’t virtuous. Thus the Aristotlean view, well-being=virtuous activity, also explains this.
Formula of the Kingdom of Empties