PHL201H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Egotism, John Stuart Mill, Hedonism
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If planning on arguing that vi solution is faulty because people don"t have fw is not quite right: this is whether or not people have fw. In this paper should assume that fw is not a problem: focus on vi, is he right, but just saying he"s right is not enough, need to say why. 2016-03-02: only value piece of paper because it gets us other things that we want to get. Intrinsic: want them for their own sake, ex: pleasure: good feelings, want it for itself, thing you should act towards, knowledge, power, achievement, beauty, knowledge, let"s say when you learn sthg you feel sense of pleasure and achievement. If knowledge is intrinsically valuable, we don"t want it because of the pleasure we get when we achieve it. If knowledge was only good for the power it gave you then maybe knowledge isn"t intrinsically valuable to you, and power is.
