A view of right and wrong, good and evil, in a universe without gods.
I am away from my blog for a couple of weeks. This is an experiment in posting some conversation topics while I am gone.
The two questions to answer relevant to the statement below is are:
• Is it true?
• Is it important?
(7) Desires are the only end-reasons for action that exist.
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Alonzo Fyfe
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By request, I have written some of the basic principles of the desire utilitarian moral theory that sits as the foundation for these blog postings into a book called, A Better Place: Selected Essays in Desire Utilitarianism.
In a previous post, I wrote a detailed account of the contents of the book.
2 comments:
I know of no other, but for this sort of statement I feel sure that I have not considered the matter enough.
I know of other reasons that people claim to exist. You list many of them and I think your reasons for discounting them are accurate.
This depends a great deal on what qualifies as an end-reason. I'm still trying to hunt down all the literature on this.
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