Welfarism

Abstract

Abstract Welfarism is the view that morality is centrally concerned with the welfare or well‐being of individuals. The division between welfarist and non‐welfarist approaches underlies many important disagreements in ethics, but welfarism is neither consistently defined nor well understood. I survey the philosophical work on welfarism, and I offer a suggestion about how the view can be characterized and how it can be embedded in various kinds of moral theory. I also identify welfarism's major rivals, and its major attractions and weaknesses.

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