Well-being as value fulfillment: how we can help each other to live well / Valerie Tiberius.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tiberius, Valerie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Well-being.

Values.

Physical Description:

xii, 214 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford University Press : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

What is human well-being? Valerie Tiberius argues that our lives go well to the extent that we succeed in terms of what matters to us emotionally, reflectively, and over the long term. In other words, well-being consists in fulfilling or realizing our appropriate values over time. In the first half of the book, Tiberius sets out the theory of well-being as value fulfilment. She explains what valuing is and what it is to fulfill values over time. In the second half of the book she applies the theory to the problem of how to help others, particularly our friends. We don't always know how to provide the help we know others need; but we also have the problem of knowing what help they need in the first place, and this is a problem that requires ethical thinking.0Tiberius argues that when we want to help others achieve greater well-being, we should pay attention to their values. This entails attending to how others' values fit together, how they understand what it means to succeed in terms of these values, and how things could change for them over time. Being a good and helpful friend, then, requires cultivating some habits of humility that overcome our tendency to think we know what's good for other people without really understanding what it's like to0be them.

Contents:

1.1 Maxine, Sander, and Jules p. 4

1.2 The Focus on Friendship p. 8

1.3 The Focus on Values and the Value Fulfillment Theory in a Nutshell p. 10

1.4 Why this Theory? p. 17

2 The Value Fulfillment Theory of Well-Being p. 34

2.1 Main Features of the Value Fulfillment Theory p. 34

2.2 What are Values? p. 37

2.3 The Value-Fulfilled Life and the Long-Term Perspective p. 46

2.4 Can Ultimate Values be Improved? p. 55

2.5 Value Fulfillment Theory: Subjective or Objective? p. 61

3 What is Value Fulfillment? p. 66

3.1 What is Value Fulfillment for a Single Value? p. 69

3.2 What is Value Fulfillment for Multiple Values? p. 76

3.3 Values and Virtues p. 86

3.4 Adaptive Values p. 94

4 Assessing Well-Being: Value Fulfillment Theory in Practice p. 98

4.1 Friendship and Helping p. 100

4.2 Friends are not Other Selves p. 105

4.3 Informational and Interpersonal Challenges p. 114

4.4 When Does it Make Sense to Discount, Ignore, or Try to Change People's Values? p. 122

4.5 Beyond Friendship p. 133

5 Being a Good Friend p. 140

5.1 Good Friends p. 140

5.2 Perspective-Taking and Its Challenges p. 144

5.3 Humility in Friendship p. 155

5.4 How Open-Minded Should We Be about Our Values? p. 165

5.5 Friendship and Moral Decency p. 170.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-209) and index.

ISBN:

0198809492

9780198809494

OCLC:

1028600955