Well-being And Time

No matter what role you play in society,the topic of well-being is closely related to everyone,and the measurement of well-being is an unstoppable subject.The understanding of well-being in various disciplines is based on different starting points.The discussion of well-being in this article is actually the evaluation of how one's life going well.As for the evaluation of individual well-being,some put forward that the value of an event is cumulative and additive,based on the Hedonistic values and pain and pleasure can be quantified.Then,some people evaluate their global well-being by calculating the value of events in life.Later,some discovered the vital of “time” in the evaluation,and put forward the view that the narrative structure of life can be used as a theoretical basis to refute momentary well-being is cumulative and additive in the synchronic and diachronic perspectives of well-being.On the one hand,the value of a person's global well-being in life is a second-order value that cannot be reduced to the value of the moment.The global well-being cannot be added or cumulated from the momentary well-being.On the other hand,synchronic well-being corresponds to the value of momentary well-being,because momentary well-being is the definition of value from the perspective of each moment.In fact,momentary well-being under different perspectives are not cumulative or additve.The relationship between diachronic well-being and synchronic well-being cannot be defined through decomposition or combination.Each of them has its own unique value.We uphold the concept of more comprehensive and more authoritative vision,so any kind of perspective is indispensable when evaluating individual well-being.The point of this paper is to measure individual well-being in terms of the time dimension,and to counteract the point that the value of global well-being in life is cumulative and additve from the value of momentary well-being.Supporting the arguments of Alasdair Macintyre,Charles Taylor and David Velleman,they regarded the narrative of life structure as the entry point,emphasizing the role of time in evaluating well-being,and arguing the momentary well-being can not be cumulative and additive.