What makes your life go well for you? In this paper, we give an account of welfare. Our core idea is simple. There are impersonally good and bad things out there: things that are good or bad period, not (or not only) good or bad for someone. The life that is good for you is the life in contact with the good. We’ll understand the relevant notion of ‘contact’ here in terms of manifestation: you’re in contact with a value when it is manifest in parts of your life or parts of your life are manifest in it. So, the more the good is manifest in your life, or your life manifest in the good, the better for you. The more the bad is manifest in your life, or your life manifest in the bad, the worse for you. We’ll argue that this account is extensionally adequate: it explains the welfare value of achievements, friendships, knowledge, pleasures and virtues. Moreover, it has a number of explanatory virtues: it’s unified, elegant and explanatorily powerful. So, we’ll suggest, it’s an excellent account of welfare, and in many ways superior to its main competitors.

是什么让你的生活过得顺利？在本文中，我们对福利进行了说明。我们的核心理念很简单。外面有客观的好和坏的事情：事情是好是坏，而不是（或不仅仅是）对某人有利或不利。对你有益的生活就是与美好接触的生活。我们将从表现的角度来理解“接触”的相关概念：当某种价值在你生活的某些部分中显现出来，或者你的生活的某些部分在其中显现出来时，你就在与某种价值接触。因此，你的生活中体现的善越多，或者你的生活中体现的善越多，对你就越好。你的生活中出现的坏事越多，或者你的生活中出现的坏事越多，对你来说就越糟糕。我们认为这个解释在外延上是充分的：它解释了成就、友谊、知识、快乐和美德的福利价值。此外，它还有许多解释性的优点：统一、优雅且解释性强大。因此，我们建议，这是对福利的出色描述，并且在许多方面优于其主要竞争对手。