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Is children’s wellbeing different from adults’ wellbeing?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Andrée-Anne Cormier  and
Mauro Rossi Open the ORCID record for Mauro Rossi [Opens in a new window]
Andrée-Anne Cormier
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, York University, Glendon College, Toronto, Canada
Mauro Rossi*
Affiliation:
Département de philosophie, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada
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Mauro Rossi rossi.mauro@uqam.ca Département de philosophie, Université du Québec à Montréal, Case postale 8888, succursale Centre-ville, Montréal, Québec H3C 3P8, Canada
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Abstract

Call generalism about children’s and adults’ wellbeing the thesis that the same theory of wellbeing applies to both children and adults. Our goal is to examine whether generalism is true. While this question has not received much attention in the past, it has recently been suggested that generalism is likely to be false and that we need to elaborate different theories of children’s and adults’ wellbeing. In this paper, we defend generalism against the main objections it faces and make a positive case for it.

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Wellbeingchildrengeneralismspecial goods of childhoodchildren’s development

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Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Volume 49 , Issue 8 , December 2019 , pp. 1146 - 1168
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Copyright © Canadian Journal of Philosophy 2019

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