Inspired a bit by Ralph's post critiquing Kant's view of unconditioned or fundamental goods, I've been investigating why Kant arrives at his (in my opinion) […] Read More
Tag: Welfare
I've recently been mulling over what seems to be a disagreement between desire-satisfaction view theorists about the proper way to formulate a desire-satisfaction view about […] Read More
Coming to exist is always a harm. Or so argues David Benatar in his provocative book, Better Never to Have Been.A central pillar of Benatar's […] Read More
I’m intrigued by Kant’s remarks on happiness and well-being. I’ve been thinking of the traditional understanding of his view and a passage we’ve discussed in […] Read More
I'm attracted to a view of well-being with (roughly) the following structure: x is intrinsically good for y if and only if y believes that […] Read More
As we all know, J. S. Mill claims that pleasures differ from each other, not only in quantity, but also in quality. Many commentators have […] Read More
THIS looks very interesting. The postgraduate students at St Andrews are organising an online reading group on John Broome’s brilliant Weighing Lives book. There’s even […] Read More
You are offered a choice between two experience machines. Machine A is just like the ones you already know about. You’ll be on the experience […] Read More
Dale Miller’s recent post on Mill’s theory of value (and subsequent discussion) was quite enlightening. And it set me thinkin’ about qualitative hedonism and perfectionism, […] Read More