PHIL 1305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Egotism, Frans De Waal, Glaucon
26 Jul 2018
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3 kinds of goods : excerpt from pato"s republic: goods that are only good for the consequences they bring. Instrumental goods. (examples: money, education, food. : goods that we enjoy for their own sake. Intrinsic goods. (example: health: goods that we enjoy both for their own sake and for their consequences. Acting morally or justly is merely an instrumental good. It"s only good for the consequences it brings. If we could get away with it, we"d be immoral as much as possible. There are enough negative consequences for behaving immorally and positive ones for acting moral. Best case scenario: to be unjust, but not to su er injustice. Worst case scenario: su ering injustice without being able to be unjust to others. Compromise: we agree to refrain from injustice to avoid su ering injustice. This shows that being just is an instrumental good. Imagine that there are two men, a just man and an unjust man, with the ring.
