Perfect Happiness

Q3 Arts and Humanities

Symposion Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.5840/symposion2021814

Daniel Rönnedal

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Abstract

In this paper, I will develop a new theory of the nature of happiness, or “perfect happiness.” I will examine what perfect happiness is and what it is not and I will try to answer some fundamental questions about this property. According to the theory, which I shall call “the fulfillment theory,” perfect happiness is perfect fulfillment. The analysis of happiness in this paper is a development of the old idea that happiness is getting what you want and can be classified as a kind of desire-satisfaction theory. According to the fulfillment theory of happiness, it is necessarily the case that an individual x is perfectly happy if and only if all x’s wants are fulfilled. The interpretation of this basic definition is important, since the consequences of the particular version defended in this essay are radically different from the consequences of many other popular theories of happiness. The fulfillment theory is also quite different from most other desire-satisfaction theories of happiness. We will see that it has many interesting consequences and that it can be defended against some potentially serious counterarguments. The upshot is that the analysis of (perfect) happiness developed in the present paper is quite attractive.

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完美的幸福

在这篇论文中，我将发展一个关于幸福本质的新理论，或者说“完美幸福”。我将研究什么是完美的幸福，什么不是完美的幸福，并试图回答一些关于这一属性的基本问题。根据我称之为“满足理论”的理论，完美的幸福就是完美的满足。本文对幸福的分析是对“幸福是得到你想要的东西”这一旧观点的发展，可以归类为一种欲望满足理论。根据幸福的满足理论，当且仅当x的所有需求都得到满足时，个体x必然是完全幸福的。对这一基本定义的解释很重要，因为本文所捍卫的特定版本的结果与许多其他流行的幸福理论的结果截然不同。满足理论也与大多数其他关于幸福的欲望满足理论大不相同。我们将看到它有许多有趣的结果，而且它可以反驳一些潜在的严肃的反对意见。结论是，本文对(完美)幸福的分析相当有吸引力。

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Symposion Arts and Humanities-Philosophy

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0.40

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审稿时长

6 weeks

期刊介绍： Symposion was published for the first time in 2003, as Symposion – Revistă de științe socio-umane (Symposion – A Journal of Humanities), with the purpose of providing a supportive space for academic communication, dialogue, and debate, both intra and interdisciplinary, for philosophical humanities and social and political sciences. Symposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences shares essentially the same purpose. Its main aim is to promote and provide open access to peer-reviewed, high quality contributions (articles, discussion notes, review essays or book reviews) in philosophy, other humanities, and social and political sciences connected with philosophy.