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“To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?” - Jeremy Bentham1 A core element of utilitarianism is welfarism—the view that only the welfare (also called well-being) of individuals determines how good a particular state of the world is. While consequentialists claim that what is right is to promote the amount of good in the world, welfarists specifically equate the good to be promoted with well-being. The term well-being is used in philosophy to describe everything that is in itself good for someone—so-called intrinsic or basic welfare goods—as opposed to things that are only instrumentally good. For example, happiness is intrinsically good for you; it directly increases your well-being. In contrast, money can buy many useful things and is thus instrumentally good for you, but does not directly, in itself, contribute to your well-being. (We can similarly speak of things that are intrinsically bad for you, like misery, as “welfare ba

Theories of Well-Being | Utilitarianism.net Theories of Well-Being “To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?” - Jeremy Bentham 1 Table of Contents Introduction A core element of utilitarianism is welfarism —the view that only the welfare (also called well-being ) of individuals determines how good a particular state of the world is. While consequentialists claim that what is right is to promote the amount of good in the world, welfarists specifically equate the good to be promoted with well-being. The term well-being is used in philosoph

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