THE WELL-BEING THEORIES AND THEIR REFLECTION IN CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS

The relevance of well-being study in modern social philosophy results from the need to determine the most significant trends in the analysis of this phenomenon, followed by the use of the results to identify an optimal concept of social well-being in modern society. The main aim of the research is to study foreign trends in the study of well-being phenomenon, to analyze the existing theories of well-being and to identify various scientific positions on this issue. The object-subject area of research is modern concepts of well-being presented in the works of John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, Robert Nozik, Derek Parfit, Richard Crisp, James Griffin, John Finnis, Philip Kitcher, Thomas Herk, Martha Nussbaum etc.  Methods. This article uses analytical and comparative methods, which allow studying the main scientific trends in the field of well-being and comparing the results of domestic and foreign authors research. Results. The paper presents the classification of the most relevant theories of social well-being, analyses main research trends of this phenomenon and determines further steps in well-being study.