Life's Values: Pleasure, Happiness, Well-Being, and MeaningIn Life's Values Alan H. Goldman seeks to explain what is of ultimate value in individual lives. The proposed candidates include pleasure, happiness, meaning, and well being. Only the latter is the all inclusive category of personal value, and it consists in the satisfaction of deep rational desires. Since individuals' rational desires differ, the book cannot dictate what will maximize your own well being and what in particular you ought to pursue.