PHI 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Scientific Method, Global Justice, Perpetual Peace
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Instrumental goods and rationalities vs. intrinsic goods and rationalities. Any good moral theory has gotten down to the intrinsic good and does not just use the instrumental. Instrumental good are only good because they produce some other good (ie. taking medicine) it is not a good in itself but what it produces is good. Instrinsic good is good because it does not have to produce anything else for us to want it. We want health for health, not just because it produces other things. Certain things can be both intrinsic and instrumentally good. Money is instrumentally good it has no value in itself, we only want it because it can get us different things. We often know more about the things we want then why we want them. Ie. talking about their car rather than knowing they wanted a car more than other goods. We are losing the ability to assess the intrinsic.