Abstract
Sid is pleased, lets suppose. Is that good? Philosophers of value give three different responses to that question: Yes, No, and It depends. On the third of these views, the answer depends on what Sid is pleased by. If what pleases him is the fine weather, then Yes, his being pleased is good; but if it is someone elses agony, No. On the second, Sids being pleased by the fine weather is good, and his being pleased by suffering is bad, but his just being pleased is evaluatively inadequate. However, the first view answers Yes. Sids being pleased by suffering is bad; but his being pleased is nonderivatively good, no matter what he is pleased by. This is the Mainstream View about the value of pleasure: Plato, Brentano, Sidgwick, Moore, Ewing, Frankena, Chisholm, Lemos and Hurka all hold it.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 26-49 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | Philosophy and Phenomenological Research |
| Volume | 98 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - Jan 2019 |
| Externally published | Yes |