Friday, August 27, 2010

Value monism

I have argued elsewhere against value monism (http://www.robert-w-jones.com/, philosopher, axiology).

A strong argument against value monism is the fact that the monists can not agree on what is the single thing that is to be valued.  Some suggestions have been:

pleasure

life/health/age

the number of children or grandchildren you have had

money

"utility"

"fitness"

goodness/godliness

time (but one could change this or one's age by relativistic means, and so....)

energy

etc....

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