[email protected] - An International Journal for Moral Philosophy 17 (1):1-12 (2018)
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In this paper, I engage with Law’s paper ‘Evil Pleasure Is Good For You!’ I argue that, although his criticism of hedonistic utilitarianism may hold some weight, his analysis of the goodness of pleasure is overly simplistic. I highlight some troubling results which would follow from his analysis and then outline a new account which then remedies these problems. Ultimately, I distinguish between Law’s ‘evil pleasures’ and, what I call, ‘virtuous pleasures’ and show how we can accept the goodness of virtuous pleasures without being obliged to say that evil pleasures are also good for us.
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Keywords | Ethics Pleasure Aristotelianism Hedonism Utilitarianism |
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Reprint years | 2018 |
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DOI | 10.5007/1677-2954.2018v17n1p1 |
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