Theories of Welfare
The concept of welfare refers to how well a person’s life goes for that
particular person. To say that a person’s life is going well for that person
is not to say that her life is useful for others, or that it is a morally commendable
life, or that it is praiseworthy from an aesthetic perspective;
such lives may also be good from the perspective of welfare, but only
insofar as leading a morally or aesthetically admirable life is good for the