PHL275H1 Lecture Notes - Jackhammer, Experience Machine
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You can want to bring something into being because you think it"s good, or you might just want to bring it into being. Understands of virtue and vice as higher level intrinsic values. If something is good then having a positive attitude (loving it/desiring it/pursuing it/being pleased by it for itself) is also good. If your happiness is a good thing, me wanting your happiness is also a good thing. Knowledge is intrinsically good, if i want knowledge for its own sake, that would be another good thing. If something is evil, loving x for itself, is another evil. If your pain is evil, my wanting your pain is also evil. Malice or malevolence, sadism where you take pleasure in someone else"s pain, would be a case of loving evil. If you hate x, you want it not to exist, and you are saddened when it does exist, hating x for itself is good.
