WellBeing as Value Fulfillment, Valerie Tiberius
WellBeing as Value Fulfillment, Valerie Tiberius
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Well-Being as Value Fulfillment
How We Can Help Each Other to Live Well

Author: Valerie Tiberius

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Unabridged: 7 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/20/2018


Synopsis

What is human well-being? Valerie Tiberius argues that our lives go well to the extent that we succeed in terms of what matters to us emotionally, reflectively, and over the long term. In other words, well-being consists in fulfilling or realizing our appropriate values over time. In the first half of the book, Tiberius sets out the theory of well-being as value fulfilment. She explains what valuing is and what it is to fulfill values over time. In the second half of the book she applies the theory to the problem of how to help others, particularly our friends. We don't always know how to provide the help we know others need; but we also have the problem of knowing what help they need in the first place, and this is a problem that requires ethical thinking. Tiberius argues that when we want to help others achieve greater well-being, we should pay attention to their values. This entails attending to how others' values fit together, how they understand what it means to succeed in terms of these values, and how things could change for them over time. Being a good and helpful friend, then, requires cultivating some habits of humility that overcome our tendency to think we know what's good for other people without really understanding what it's like to be them.

About Valerie Tiberius

Valerie Tiberius is the Paul W. Frenzel Chair in Liberal Arts and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Minnesota. Her work explores the ways in which philosophy and psychology can both contribute to the study of well-being and virtue. She is the author of The Reflective Life: Living Wisely With Our Limits and Moral Psychology: A Contemporary Introduction. She has also published numerous articles on the topics of virtue, well-being, and the relationship between positive psychology and ethics, and has received grants from the Templeton Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Charlie on December 05, 2022

I enjoyed the well-being half of this book more than the friendship half. One good thing about this book is that it doesn't get bogged down in a lot of pointless nit-picking, and because of this it comes much closer than most practical philosophy to actually being practical. One way Tiberius does thi......more

Goodreads review by elijah ! on November 25, 2022

This is the first philosophy book I’ve read! Her argument is clear, I liked the thoughts about friendship, and I chuckled at a lot of her examples. I was surprised that the author recommends happiness as a value! For the past couple of years, I’ve been thinking a lot about how avoiding social anxiety......more