PHIL 1550 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hedone, John Stuart Mill, Bad Life

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> need a well being to understand a good life. Intrinsically valuable: valuable in their own right: mostly concern the standards of what a good life is, not everyone values the same things intrinsically. How do we determine was is intrinsically valuable: you don"t want it to be dependant on anything instrumental. How do we even begin to think about this (whats intrinsically valuable): think about the lives of people that are unarguably good. Lives that qualify as good, can be a way of figuring out what things are intrinsically valuable: these people live good lives or live a good life because they are happy. Hedonism: a good life is a happy life, the only thing that is intrinsically valuable is happiness, hedonism = pleasure, one thing that is intrinsically valuable for a good life (happiness) the being unhappy. Comes from the greek hedone, which means pleasure reduces our quality of life, gives us a bad life.

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Philosophy Question: Is wisdom (philosophy) something you value most, which you consider most vital to living a good life?

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Valuable in itself
Valued by someone for its own sake

If something has intrinsic value in the first sense, this means that the universe is somehow a better place for that thing existing or occurring.

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