PHIL 2720 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Paternalism

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2720
• Professor: Greg Scherkoske

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Section 2 (3-4 paragraphs med questions = 30%) Section 3 (7-8 paragraphs per answer =40%) 1)alienation: the quick and dirty response: it is entirely open to the defender of an objective view of well-being to insist that things like pleasure/enjoyment/happiness are part of what (cid:272)o(cid:374)stitutes a perso(cid:374)(cid:859)s (cid:449)ell-being. To the extent that a person cannot be alienated from what they find pleasurable, enjoyable, or happy-making, then that answers the objection: the subtler, less dirty response; we can question how unassailable the alienation principle really is. 2)paternalism: objective views only specify certain kinds of objective goods- the theories do(cid:374)(cid:859)t tell a person specifi(cid:272) o(cid:271)je(cid:272)ts of a(cid:272)hie(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts/k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge/lo(cid:448)e/et(cid:272). That is, we compared rival theories of well-being. We did this because this is one clear-cut respe(cid:272)t i(cid:374) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h a perso(cid:374)(cid:859)s life (cid:373)ight (cid:271)e good. But the concern with the good life a concern to live such a life- needs to consider other dimensions of value.