caa a22 4500 606237763 CHVBK 20210128101254.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10677-014-9540-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10677-014-9540-x Campbell Stephen Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania, 3401 Market Street, Suite 320, 19104, Philadelphia, PA, USA aut When the Shape of a Life Matters [Elektronische Daten] [Stephen Campbell] It seems better to have a life that begins poorly and ends well than a life that begins well and ends poorly. One possible explanation is that the very shape of a life can be good or bad for us. If so, this raises a tough question: when can the shape of our lives be good or bad for us? In this essay, I present and critique an argument that the shape of a life is a non-synchronic prudential value—that is, something that can be good or bad for us in a way that is not good or bad for us at any particular time. After distinguishing two interpretations of ‘the shape of a life', I argue that the first type of shape can be good or bad for us at particular moments while the other cannot be good or bad for us at all. This suggests that the shape of a life gives us no reason to posit non-synchronic prudential values. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Well-being nationallicence Prudential value nationallicence The good life nationallicence Shape of a life nationallicence Timing puzzle nationallicence Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/3(2015-06-01), 565-575 1386-2820 18:3<565 2015 18 10677 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-014-9540-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-014-9540-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Campbell Stephen Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania, 3401 Market Street, Suite 320, 19104, Philadelphia, PA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/3(2015-06-01), 565-575 1386-2820 18:3<565 2015 18 10677