Abstract
According to the objective list theory, certain things are good or bad for us whether we want to have the good things or want to avoid the bad things.This thesis intends to show this theory has promise and it is a serious contender as the theory of well-being. Each of this thesis’s three chapters will argue this. The first chapter will clarify what is this thing called‘well-being’and addressingconfusion that canarise, and to address the purpose and the conception of well-being. The second chapter will do what I call ‘defuse subjectivism’. This chapter intends to show that subjectivism, roughly what is good is determined by a subject, can be defuse. This means it can have its flaws illuminated, leading to us saying that subjectivism is not promising and, incidentally, the objective list theory could be promising. The third chapter discusses objective theories. This chapter clarifies some issues when understanding the objective list theory as well as some of its benefits. This chapter will then move to discussing ways to do objective theories these being ‘monism and pluralism’ and ‘perfectionism’. This chapter will then address the most important objections to the objective list theory, these being ‘the matter of mere tastes’, ‘the arbitrary numberof goods’, and ‘the alienation argument’.