PHIL 120W Study Guide - Final Guide: Ant-Zen, Section 15 Of The Canadian Charter Of Rights And Freedoms, Wrong Turn
14 Dec 2012
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Very roughly, the rightness of an action is determined by how other people are treated. While the good relates to how we lead our own life and whether we are happy. Theories of happiness or the good life are attempts to answer in a systematic way the question, What is responsible for making happy people happy? . Def: a person is happy the greater the quantity of their satisfied desires. Everyone cares and are motivated to satisfy their desires (non-alienation) Irresistible desires a person does not want to have satisfied (marry the creep) A person is happy the greater the quantity of pleasure their life contains. Facts about pleasure are objective and insensitive to some psychological deficiencies example desire to date the creep. Mill and the higher" pleasure theory of a person"s good. Def"n perfectionism: a person cannot be truly happy unless their capacities for human excellence are developed: two kinds of pleasure.
