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On all plausible theories, everyone’s well-being consists at least in part in being happy, and avoiding suffering.

Derek Parfit

2011

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Moral theory Happiness Suffering

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2011

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Derek Parfit

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Parfit, Derek. Reasons and Persons. Oxford University Press, 1984.

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