Against the taste model

Griffin, James

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“…The title of a famous article of George Stigler and Gary Becker, defending this methodological assumption, is unsurprisingly 'De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum' (Stigler and Becker 1977). However, Griffin (1991) has argued that, although this simplification may make sense for explanatory of predictive purposes, it misses the point as a concept of wellbeing. According to Griffin, well-being is the fulfilment of 'informed desires', not of whimsical preferences.…”

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“…The economist's way of considering preferences starts from the idea of 'consumer sovereignty', according to which things are valued because they are desired. A normative approach of rational preferences necessarily has to reject this 'taste-model' (Griffin 1991). People have preferences for one option over another because on the basis of an independent valuation of these options.…”

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Sustainable Development and Well-Being: A Philosophical Challenge

2017

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This paper aims at gaining a better understanding of the inherent paradoxes within sustainability discourses by investigating its basic assumptions. Drawing on a study of the metaphoric references operative in moral language, we reveal the predominance of the 'well-being = wealth' construct, which may explain the dominance of the 'business case' cognitive frame in sustainability discourses (Hahn et al. in Acad Manag Rev 4015:18-42, 2015a). We incorporate economic well-being variables within a philosophical model of becoming well (Küpers in Cult Organ 11(3):221-231, 2005), highlighting the way in which these variables consistently articulate a combination of 'objective' and 'subjective' concerns. We then compare this broad understanding of well-being with the metaphors operative in the sustainable development discourse and argue that the sustainability discourse has fallen prey to an overemphasis on the 'business case'. We proceed to draw on Georges Bataille to challenge the predominance of these value priorities and to explore which mindshifts are required to develop a more comprehensive understanding of what is needed to enable 'sustainable development'.

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“…He holds that a decent life consists of liberty, psychological capacity for autonomous decisions, and a minimum of material resources. Griffin's (1991) main point is that there is such a potential list of important types of objects; although he is less certain about how to categorize them. For example, what Griffin terms "accomplishments" might as well be termed "involvements".…”

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“…However, and this might be problematic for the utilitarian tradition, an attitude of hedonism was negatively unrelated to meaningful involvement and unrelated to autonomous activity. One would expect the opposite if Bentham (1823/1907) and Mill (1861/1991 were right that human motivation is fundamentally hedonistic-i.e., that the more one embrace a hedonistic attitude, the more one would like to make autonomous decisions and do whatever we decide to do without other people interfering in these decisions. Normative hedonists may respond, however, that our participants are not philosophers who reflect over how they can pursue pleasurable goals in the long run.…”

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Wise Desire-Priorities: Hedonism or Moral Integrity?

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Gausel²

2014

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Although there are several philosophical theories about what constitutes 'good life', few focuses on which type of desires pay off for those who entertain them. We therefore investigate empirically how people prioritize among desires through a global assessment of what lives they most want to live. In the current study (N = 154), we presented them with 26 questions about the type of life they could find desirable. Structural Equation Modeling revealed systematic differences in how a hedonistic attitude and an attitude of moral integrity differently predicted desires towards life. And as older participants tended to be less supportive of hedonistic attitudes, our results argue against hedonism.

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A weakness of the capability approach with respect to gender justice

Qizilbash

1997

J. Int. Dev.

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This paper is concerned with certain ways in which people adjust to deprivation. Capability egalitarians cite cases where people adjust to deprivation by adapting their preferences to discredit welfarist egalitarianism. I argue that this phenomenon is an example of a larger set of cases, where people adjust their abilities and dispositions in the face of deprivation: I term such abilities and dispositions`compensating abilities'. When these develop, I argue that equality of capability is unjust. This is particularly true in the context of gender injustice. Such cases lead us to look to some notion of expected wellbeing as a crucial egalitarian currency.

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Against the taste model

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Sustainable Development and Well-Being: A Philosophical Challenge

Sustainable Development and Well-Being: A Philosophical Challenge

Wise Desire-Priorities: Hedonism or Moral Integrity?

A weakness of the capability approach with respect to gender justice

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