The Controversial Equation For A Good Life
It seems appropriate that during the course of one’s life, one has to at some point evaluate what makes a life a good one and come to terms with whether they lived their life well or not. This question “What is the good Life?,” has been explored by thinkers from diverse disciplines and dates back from Plato and Aristotle to present time. Renowned legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin detailed a possible answer in his essay “What Is A Good Life?” based on the concepts of ethics and morality, providing a basic spectrum through which one can evaluate the claims set forward by philosopher Peter Singer in his famous essay, “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” and the studies examined in the article “Rules or Consequences: …show more content…
In his essay discusses the importance to think of oneself as intrinsically important and reveals the natural responsibility that one has to live well. According to Dworkin, a good life is not defined as “maximising the chance of producing the best possible life” because “any plausible view of what is truly wonderful in almost any human life, impact hardly comes into the story at all” but rather it is a creation of a wonderful performance: “a rising to the challenge of having a life to lead” (Dworkin 6). He argues that one has a good life when they create an authentic masterpiece as they chase success according to their own independent interpretations of concepts of living well and having a good life.
Peter Singer provides an alternative moral perspective in that “the whole way we look at moral issues needs to be altered, and with it, the way of life that has come to be taken for granted in our society” (Singer 230), as he details the example how nearly nine million people were forced into refugees by the civil war that overtook Bengal and how human beings from more affluent nations responded by not making “the necessary decisions,” decisions and actions that could “prevent this
It seems appropriate that during the course of one’s life, one has to at some point evaluate what makes a life a good one and come to terms with whether they lived their life well or not. This question “What is the good Life?,” has been explored by thinkers from diverse disciplines and dates back from Plato and Aristotle to present time. Renowned legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin detailed a possible answer in his essay “What Is A Good Life?” based on the concepts of ethics and morality, providing a basic spectrum through which one can evaluate the claims set forward by philosopher Peter Singer in his famous essay, “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” and the studies examined in the article “Rules or Consequences: …show more content…
In his essay discusses the importance to think of oneself as intrinsically important and reveals the natural responsibility that one has to live well. According to Dworkin, a good life is not defined as “maximising the chance of producing the best possible life” because “any plausible view of what is truly wonderful in almost any human life, impact hardly comes into the story at all” but rather it is a creation of a wonderful performance: “a rising to the challenge of having a life to lead” (Dworkin 6). He argues that one has a good life when they create an authentic masterpiece as they chase success according to their own independent interpretations of concepts of living well and having a good life.
Peter Singer provides an alternative moral perspective in that “the whole way we look at moral issues needs to be altered, and with it, the way of life that has come to be taken for granted in our society” (Singer 230), as he details the example how nearly nine million people were forced into refugees by the civil war that overtook Bengal and how human beings from more affluent nations responded by not making “the necessary decisions,” decisions and actions that could “prevent this