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.
I know of no other, but for this sort of statement I feel sure that I have not considered the matter enough.
ReplyDeleteI 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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