Objective Goods
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23170000 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Hurka (0000-0002-2883-5101, University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 379-402 |
| Publication date | 2016-11-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199325818.013.12 |
| OpenAlex | W4240083219 |
| ISBN | 9780199325818 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
This chapter discusses the idea that there are objective human goods, ones that are desirable and worth pursuing independently of how much you desire or would enjoy them. It examines some leading candidates for such goods, principally the nonmoral goods of knowledge and achievement and the moral good of virtue. It argues that the aggregation of objective goods may use different principles than for subjective goods, for example, ones that value variety or tend less to favor equal distributions of resources. It also considers some policy implications of endorsing objective goods, for example about education, arts funding, and the justification of the market, and asks how far the Sen-Nussbaum capabilities approach can be connected to an objective account of well-being or the human good.
Economics · Epistemology · Form of the Good · Intermediate good · Microeconomics · Political science · Production (economics) · Public good · The arts · Value (mathematics) · Variety (cybernetics) · Virtue · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics
| Citations per year | 0.43 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |