PHILOS 2YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Derek Parfit
8 Apr 2015
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Talks about 3 main views (hedonism, desire fulfillment theory, objective list theory) Your life goes best if you are happier, if it is more pleasant. Separates into narrow hedonism, and preference hedonism. Parfit is going to give us reasons to prefer preference hedonism. There are two types of preference hedonism (summative and global version) Life goes best when you are able to fulfill your desire. Two main versions of this - unrestricted theory, success theory. He will talk about two different versions of the success theory - summative version and global version. ) : there are certain things that are good and bad for us, if we achieve those things, then our life would be good. Even if you don"t desire those things, those things are good for you and would make your life go better. The version the parfit thinks is the better version. On both narrow and preference hedonism, you"re saying.
