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Does Having Deep Personal Relationships Constitute an Element of Well-Being?

Author(s) -

Brad Hooker

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

aristotelian society supplementary volume

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1467-8349

pISSN - 0309-7013

DOI - 10.1093/arisup/akab003

Subject(s) - affection , element (criminal law) , value (mathematics) , personal account , psychology , sociology , social psychology , cognitive psychology , epistemology , computer science , philosophy , law , political science , linguistics , narrative , machine learning

Deep personal relationships involve deep mutual understanding and strong mutual affection. This paper focuses on whether having deep personal relationships is one of the elements of well-being. Roger Crisp put forward thought experiments which might be taken to suggest that having deep personal relationships has only instrumental value as a means to other elements of well-being. The different conclusion this paper draws is that having deep personal relationships is an element of well-being if, but only if, the other people involved have qualities that merit affection for these people.

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