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    Happiness is partially constituted by whose happiness it ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Happiness as such is the proper object of disinterested or impartial concern

    Happiness is partially constituted by whose happiness it is, meaning 'happiness as such' stripped of its bearer is not a coherent object of concern.

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    • 1.Happiness involves evaluative attitudes about one's own life; these attitudes are intrinsically relational to the subject experiencing them.
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    • 2.Concern for 'happiness itself' abstracted from any person would be conceptually empty—like caring about 'redness' divorced from red objects.
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    • 3.Personal identity and projects shape what constitutes happiness for each person; the same state differs in value depending on whose life it is.
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    • 1.Happiness can be defined by objective features (health, relationships, autonomy) that retain meaning independent of particular bearers.
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    • 2.We can coherently prefer a world with more aggregate happiness even if we care not whose happiness it is—suggesting bearer-independent value.
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    • 3.The claim conflates epistemic access (we know happiness through subjects) with metaphysical dependence on personal identity for its reality.
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