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The Good Life

1 dot point, in syllabus order. Each dot point has a focused answer, with exam-style questions and worked answers where available.

What makes a human life go well, pleasure, desire-satisfaction, or objective flourishing?

Theories of wellbeing: hedonism, desire-satisfaction and objective list accounts

Philosophical theories of wellbeing and the good life, including hedonism and the experience machine, desire-satisfaction theory, objective list accounts and Aristotelian eudaimonia, with evaluation.

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