The attractions and delights of goodness

Philosophical Quarterly

Volumn 54, Issue 216, 2004, Pages 353-367

  Gentzler, Jyl ^a  

^a AMHERST COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 60949543108     PISSN: 00318094     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0031-8094.2004.00357.x     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Of course there are always outliers. See, e.g., D. Brink, Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics (Cambridge UP, 1989), pp. 217-36
2. T. Hurka, Perfectionism (Oxford UP, 1993)
3. R. Kraut, 'Desire and the Human Good', Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association, 68 (1994), pp. 39-54
4. L.W. Sumner, 'The Subjectivity of Welfare', Ethics, 105 (1995), pp. 764-90, at p. 769
5. P. Railton, 'Facts and Values', Philosophical Topics, 14 (1986), pp. 5-31, at p. 9. Railton uses 'intrinsic value' to refer to what I have been calling prudential value
6. Railton's account of prudential value is a variation on the informed-desire accounts of prudential value endorsed by R.B. Brandt, A Theory of the Good and the Right (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979)
7. and J. Griffin, Well-Being (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986)
8. M. Overvold, 'Self-Interest and the Concept of Self-Sacrifice', Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 10 (1980), pp. 105-18, at p. 108
9. S. Darwall, 'Self-Interest and Self-Concern', in E.F. Paul et al. (eds), Self-interest (Cambridge UP, 1997), pp. 158-78, at p. 158
10. Kraut, 'Desire and the Human Good', pp. 40-1
11. Overvold, 'Self-Interest and the Concept of Self-Sacrifice', pp. 115-18
12. See, for example, Overvold, 'Self-Interest and Getting What You Want', in H. Miller and W. Williams (eds), The Limits of Utilitarianism (Minnesota UP, 1982), pp. 186-93
13. See, e.g., Darwall, 'Self-Interest and Self-Concern', pp. 164-5
14. Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals (1785), in Kant, Ethical Philosophy, 2nd edn, tr. J.W. Ellington (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994), p. 9 (397). Numbers in parentheses indicate the page numbers in the fourth volume of the Prüssische Akademie der Wissenschaften edition of Kant's works
15. For further argument that satisfaction of desire need not be accompanied by pleasure, see J. Feinberg, 'Psychological Egoism', in J. Feinberg and R. Shafer-Landau (eds), Reason and Responsibility, 11th edn (Boston: Wadsworth, 2001), pp. 547-59, at p. 549
16. Sumner, 'Subjectivity', pp. 771-2, 773, 790
17. This, of course, is a variation on Robert Nozick's famous 'experience machine' thought-experiment: Anarchy, State, and Utopia (New York: Basic Books, 1974), pp. 43-5
18. For criticisms of Nozick's argument, see M. Silverstein, 'In Defense of Happiness: a Response to the Experience Machine', Social Theory and Practice, 26 (2000), pp. 279-300
19. Sumner, 'Subjectivity', p. 768; my italics
20. Of course, not everyone accepts Aristotle's testimony on this matter. See, e.g., H. Cherniss, The Riddle of the Early Academy (California UP, 1945)
21. For extended and convincing arguments for attributing this conception of the Good to Plato, see K. Gaiser, 'Plato's Enigmatic Lecture "On the Good"', Phronesis, 25 (1980), pp. 5-37
22. and M. Burnyeat, 'Plato on Why Mathematics is Good for the Soul', in T. Smiley (ed.), Mathematics and Necessity (Oxford UP, 2000), pp. 1-81
23. Aristoxenus, The Harmonics of Aristoxenus, ed. H. Macran (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902), 31.1-4
24. See, e.g., Railton, 'Facts and Values', p. 9
25. J.D. Velleman, 'Is Motivation Internal to Value?', in C. Fehige and U. Wessels (eds), Preferences (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1998), pp. 88-102
26. A. Gibbard, Wise Choices, Apt Feelings (Harvard UP, 1990), p. 33
27. J. Cooper, 'Plato on Human Motivation', History of Philosophy Quarterly, 1 (1984), pp. 3-21
28. repr. in his Reason and Emotion (Princeton UP, 1999), pp. 118-36. All references will be to the reprint
29. For a proponent of this view, see J. Butler, 'The Arguments for the Most Pleasant Life in Republic IX: a Note Against the Common Interpretation', Apeiron, 32 (1999), pp. 37-48
30. and 'Justice and the Fundamental Question of Plato's Republic', Apeiron, 35 (2002), pp. 1-18
31. See Velleman, 'Identity and Identification', in S. Buss and L. Overton (eds), Contours of Agency: Essays on Themes from Harry Frankfurt (MIT Press, 2002), pp. 100-5, for a similar criticism of Frankfurt's particular strategy for achieving unity of the self
32. For a defence of this sort of view, see R. Dworkin, Life's Dominion (New York: Knoft, 1993), p. 83
33. See, e.g., C. Rosati, 'Internalism and the Good for a Person', Ethics 106 (1996), pp. 293-306, at p. 299