Thus, understanding how to minimize energy consumption while maximizing well-being is a critical question.
A utilitarian will point to the fact that the consequences of doing so will maximize well-being, a deontologist to the fact that, in doing so the agent will be acting in accordance with a moral rule such as "Do unto others as you would be done by" and a virtue ethicist to the fact that helping the person would be charitable or benevolent.
Identifying trajectories of functional ability will help to guide health-care resources to maximize well-being in old age.
Likewise, Scanlon has an ulterior motive in objecting to the notion of well-being to attack so-called 'teleological' or end-based theories of ethics, in particular, utilitarianism, which in its standard form requires us to maximize well-being.
We related our research to sustainability, focused on human wellness with the aim of catalyzing lifestyle changes to create and maintain harmony while enacting social life to maximize well-being of selves and others.
Evidence from the positive psychology field has shown that practicing some brief positive exercises, called positive psychology interventions, can maximize well-being by increasing positive emotions, engagement, and meaning.
Silicon Valley entrepreneur Dave Asprey put himself on a strict orgasm diet last year -- not because of religious beliefs or health concerns, but in pursuit of data that would reveal the optimal rate of ejaculation to maximize well-being.
These findings have implications regarding the ability of older persons to make decisions that involve delayed rewards but maximize well-being.
At one extreme, hardly any weight is given to priority as it competes with maximizing well-being, and the prioritarian doctrine is then barely distinguishable from straight act utilitarianism with utility identified with well-being.
At the other extreme, hardly any weight is given to maximizing well-being as it competes with priority, and the prioritarian doctrine is then barely distinguishable from the maximin principle with well-being as the maximand.
Within normative ethics there is some interest in the notion of a person's happiness, welfare, or well-being, especially within consequentialist approaches to morality holding that a moral action is one that maximizes well-being.
