Conceptions of Individual Well-Being

P. K. Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu
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P. K. Pattanaik: University of California

Chapter Chapter 2 in Multidimensional Well-Being, Deprivation and Inequality, 2024, pp 7-15 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter contrasts the utility-based conception of individual well-being with the functioning and capability approach to individual well-being. It also discusses some general methodological points concerning the possible role of a social scientist or philosopher in the context of evaluating the well-being of individuals in a society.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-62046-1_2

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