Question

How can something be rewarding, but without being satisfying? Describe what that would be like. In a teleological ethics, would reward and satisfaction/contentment/meaning always go together

Answer 1

In our lives, we encounter several situations in which we are not satisfied but at the same time we get rewards. In situations like these, we just react normally and move on. For example, a woman is a mother, a sister, a daughter and also a wife at the same time and in this whole procedure she as a person can obviously do some mistake for which she must listen to the family members about that mistake but suppose if that whole work comes out to be good at the end and the results are satisfactory enough then the reward will also be there but now she will not be satisfied as in this whole procedure she has faced ups and downs and she will now react normally that means neither she will be happy nor she will be sad.

Now, same is the case with employee in his job cycle as he gets scolded by the employer several times but when at the end when the work is done well and the result comes out to be fantastic, then the same situation occurs where he is netiher happy nor sad.

Coming to Teleological ethics, then yes reward, satisfaction, contentment and meaning always go hand in hand. In simpler language, according to teleological ethics, if a person thinks at the beginning that what a result he or she wants because reward comes with some real struggle and when a person struggle then he learns and when a person learns then he will be rewarded, he will be satisfied, and contentment and meaning will always come together.