Desire-Fulfillment Theory

In Guy Fletcher, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Well-Being. New York,: Routledge. pp. 135-147 (2015)
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Explains the desire-fulfillment theory of well-being, its history, its development, its varieties, its advantages, and its challenges

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