What is happiness? McFall distinguishes three conceptions: contentment, affirmation, and justified affirmation of one's life; she focuses on the third. After proposing accounts of personhood and affirmation, she argues that both subjectivism and radical objectivism are, as standards of justification, incoherent. She defends a modified objectivist view, concluding that happiness is rational affirmation of one's life as a whole.
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978-0-8204-0711-1 (9780820407111)
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Contents: I. Introduction - II. Three Conceptions of Happiness - III. The Importance of Importance: Affirmation and the Concept of a Person - IV. Happiness and Rationality: An Assemssment of Subjectivism - V. Between Subjectivism and Objectivism: Rational Individual Ideals - VI. Justice and Happiness: A Reply to Thrasymachus - VII. Conclusion: Some Remarks on Radical Objectivism.