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Making desires satisfied, making satisfied desiresPhilosophical Studies 180 (3): 979-999. 2023.In this paper, I explore a fundamental but under-appreciated distinction between two ways of understanding the desire-satisfaction theory of well-being. According to proactive desire satisfactionism, a person is benefited by the acquisition of new satisfied desires. According to reactive desire satisfactionism, a person can be benefited only by the satisfaction of their existing desires. I first offer an overview of this distinction. I then canvass several ways of developing a general formulatio…Read more
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Social and Political Philosophy |
Value Theory |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |