An Analysis of Prudential Value

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8090426
AutoresStephen Campbell (0000-0002-2328-4136, autor de correspondencia), Stephen M Campbell
Año2013
Volumen25
Número3
Páginas334-354
Fecha de publicación2013-07-19
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaUtilitas (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0953-8208 • E-ISSN: 1741-6183
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0953820812000581
OpenAlexW1965103895
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas13

This essay introduces and defends a new analysis of prudential value. According to this analysis, what it is for something to be good for you is for that thing to contribute to the appeal or desirability of being in your position. I argue that this proposal fits well with our ways of talking about prudential value and well-being; enables promising analyses of luck, selfishness, self-sacrifice and paternalism; preserves the relationship between prudential value and the attitudes of concern, love, pity and envy; and satisfies various other desiderata. I also highlight two ways in which the analysis is informative and can lead to progress in our substantive theorizing about the good life

Appeal · Economics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Luck · Paternalism · Pity · Political science · Position (finance · Positive economics · Selfishness · Value (mathematics · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Free Will and Agency · Mathematics · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Psychology · Law · Philosophy · Social Psychology