Throughout human history we have been beings obsess with progress. The push for new technology, or the desire to live longer, or he desire for increase pleasure seems to drive our industries and our moral compass in ways that might not exist if it wasn’t for our need of progress. For some progress is not just an end within itself. It is rather a means to the end of well-being for all humans. Both Daniel Kahneman and Amartya Sen make it an important focus in each of their works and we will explore why that is important in the way we come to live our lives.
Well-being is an important topic for many of us. Most of us would like to increase many facets of our well-being through being better mentally, emotionally, and physically and we often …show more content…
For Sen, well-being is tied up into to freedom, and freedom is the ultimate goal in creating the conditions for well-being. While Sen focuses on lot of different methods on how we might achieve this freedom, I would like to focus on his five main points of freedom. They are political freedom, economic facilities, social opportunities, transparency guarantees, and protective security (Sen, 10). Each one of these helps humans to be more free, which in turns leads us to our well-being. For instance, political freedom is important because it allows for a person or a group to have say (and representation) in their government which effects laws that affect them. Economic facilities allow people to move out of poverty and not condemn them to be in the same class forever. Social opportunities allow for people to spread ideas and become active participants in their society. Transparency allows for many to see what is going on with the government and other organizations which in turns leads to more trust and more social cooperation. Protective security allows for the safety of all which allows for the participation of all of the other keys to freedom. I could go on, but I believe that the point is clear that these five points of freedom expand the idea of freedom from just economics to a holistic set of rights that must be met so that the well-being of people can …show more content…
Sen theory explains well-being in a more holistic communal approach for me. Because it is not about negative feeling versus positives ones, his theory gives more freeway to the idea that we all have a hand in our and each other’s well-being. If I was to create a policy that bans certain people from a certain activity like riding a bicycle, I would be creating negative feelings for those people who want to go have a nice relaxing bike ride. However, I would be doing much more than that I would be hindering some people’s ability to a type of transportation. And not just that, I would be limiting some people’s sources of income from bikes, and severely hindering people for who bicycles are their only means of transportation. I would be taking away their ability to be
Well-being is an important topic for many of us. Most of us would like to increase many facets of our well-being through being better mentally, emotionally, and physically and we often …show more content…
For Sen, well-being is tied up into to freedom, and freedom is the ultimate goal in creating the conditions for well-being. While Sen focuses on lot of different methods on how we might achieve this freedom, I would like to focus on his five main points of freedom. They are political freedom, economic facilities, social opportunities, transparency guarantees, and protective security (Sen, 10). Each one of these helps humans to be more free, which in turns leads us to our well-being. For instance, political freedom is important because it allows for a person or a group to have say (and representation) in their government which effects laws that affect them. Economic facilities allow people to move out of poverty and not condemn them to be in the same class forever. Social opportunities allow for people to spread ideas and become active participants in their society. Transparency allows for many to see what is going on with the government and other organizations which in turns leads to more trust and more social cooperation. Protective security allows for the safety of all which allows for the participation of all of the other keys to freedom. I could go on, but I believe that the point is clear that these five points of freedom expand the idea of freedom from just economics to a holistic set of rights that must be met so that the well-being of people can …show more content…
Sen theory explains well-being in a more holistic communal approach for me. Because it is not about negative feeling versus positives ones, his theory gives more freeway to the idea that we all have a hand in our and each other’s well-being. If I was to create a policy that bans certain people from a certain activity like riding a bicycle, I would be creating negative feelings for those people who want to go have a nice relaxing bike ride. However, I would be doing much more than that I would be hindering some people’s ability to a type of transportation. And not just that, I would be limiting some people’s sources of income from bikes, and severely hindering people for who bicycles are their only means of transportation. I would be taking away their ability to be