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Multi‐Component Theories of Well‐being and Their Structure
Author(s) -
Sarch Alexander F.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
pacific philosophical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.914
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1468-0114
pISSN - 0279-0750
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0114.2012.01434.x
Subject(s) - component (thermodynamics) , simple (philosophy) , face (sociological concept) , computer science , epistemology , sociology , philosophy , physics , social science , thermodynamics
The ‘adjustment strategy’ currently seems to be the most common approach to incorporating objective elements into one's theory of well‐being. These theories face a certain problem, however, which can be avoided by a different approach – namely, that employed by ‘partially objective multi‐component theories.’ Several such theories have recently been proposed, but the question of how to understand their mathematical structure has not been adequately addressed. I argue that the most mathematically simple of these multi‐component theories fails, so I proceed to investigate more sophisticated ways to formulate such a theory. I conclude that one of these – the D iscount/ I nflation T heory – is particularly promising.