Evaluating Culture: Well-Being, Institutions and Circumstance

by Matthew Thomas Johnson

From which evaluative foundation should we develop public policies designed to promote wellbeing among different cultural groups in different circumstances? This book seeks to advance an objective, universal theory of cultural evaluation grounded in a eudaemonic account of human wellbeing. The approach brings together a 'thick vague' conception of the good; a determinate, particularist conception of circumstance; an egalitarian moral philosophy with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230296564
• ISBN13: 9780230296565
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.6"