PHILOS 2YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Negative Number, Derek Parfit
14 Mar 2013
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Objective list: certain things are good/bad for us whether or not we want them. Preference hedonism e. g. knowledge, mutual love, awareness of beauty. What pains/pleasures have in common is their relation to our preferences and desires. An experiences is pleasant if it is preferred. Problem: better for me to believe i am not being deceived (irrelevant if my belief is false) Unrestricted versions: fulfillment of all my desires through out my life. Only count desires about one"s own life. Deception i don"t know what is bad for me (if i desire not to be deceived) Appeal to all of one"s desires about her life. Assign positive number to each preference or desire fulfilled and negative number to those not fulfilled (consider intensity) and get total net sum. Appeal to preferences about one"s life considered as a whole. Would prefer not to be addicted when consider life as a whole and would choose shorter high quality life.
