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Nearly all of us aspire to live a prudentially good life. To achieve this, we must understand which things are good for us and which things are bad for us - in other words, we must understand what well-being and ill-being consist in. While well-being has been the subject of significant philosophical inquiry, ill-being has received far less attention. The handful of philosophers who have considered ill-being have challenged the common belief that ill-being is the symmetrical counterpart of well-being and argued that deriving accounts of ill-being from existing theories of well-being is more complex than it appears.
The present collection of fifteen original essays offers an in-depth exploration of the philosophical issues surrounding ill-being. Issues covered include the role of ill-being in everyday practice, the aggregation of goods and bads, degrees of well- and ill-being, how existing theories of well-being can account for ill-being, the role of adaptive preferences in ill-being, and how to understand the badness of pain. By examining the relation of ill-being to a variety of connected phenomena, such as unhappiness, negative emotions and affects, pain, disability, disease, and failure, the essays will illuminate the important notions of ill-being and well-being. Given the broad relevance of these issues, this collection will be indispensable not only to philosophers but also to scholars and graduate students in fields such as psychology, sociology, and economics.
Contents
Mauro Rossi and Christine Tappolet: Introduction
1: Raffaele Rodogno: The Significance of Ill-Being
2: Christopher Frugé: Combining Good and Bad
3: Willem van der Deijl: Well-Being, Ill-Being, and Everything in Between: What Does It Mean for Well-Being to Come in Degrees?
4: Anthony Kelley: What Should the Desire Theorist Say About Ill-Being?
5: Qiannan Li and Valerie Tiberius: Adaptive Values and Subjective Ill-Being
6: Jason R. Raibley: Pleasure and Pain in Value-Fulfilment Theories of Well-Being and Ill-Being
7: Jennifer Hawkins: Explaining Emotional Pain with Affective Perspectives
8: Lorraine L. Besser: Why Is the Boring Bad?
9: Mauro Rossi and Christine Tappolet: Ill-Being and Fitting Unhappiness
10: Daniel M. Haybron: Well-Being and the Problem of Suffering
11: Antti Kauppinen: Telic Perfectionism and the Badness of Pain
12: Eric Mathison: Anti-Achievement
13: Gwen Bradford: Failure
14: Teresa Bruno-Niño and Hasko von Kriegstein: Ill-Being as Dissonance
15: Nicole Hassoun: Health and the Minimally Good Life-What Is Really Necessary to Avoid Ill-Being and (Otherwise) Fare Well Enough
