Monism and pluralism
In Guy Fletcher (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Well-Being, 2015, pp. 331–341
Abstract
In this article, the author argues that the distinction between monism and pluralism about well-being should be understood in terms of explanation: the monist affirms (but the pluralist denies) that whenever two particular things are basically good for you, the explanation of their basic goodness for you is the same. The author then consider a number of arguments for monism and a number of arguments for pluralism.