(December 13, 2017 at 1:26 am)Transcended Dimensions Wrote: What makes you think that good and bad are not actual things and that they are just mere terms we use? According to my view, positive emotions are what I metaphorically describe as being the inner light. That is, they are the experience of pure goodness, joy, and beauty itself. So, from that perspective, positive emotions would have to be pure goodness, joy, and beauty itself.
"Good" is a word. It is used to talk about something. We use "good" to talk about those things which we consider pleasurable, productive, or otherwise beneficial to us. You are defining hedonic states as good. IF hedonic states are good, they are intrinsically good, but that's just by your definition. It really doesn't mean anything to say that.
I can also say if babies are good by definition, they are intrinsically good, or anal sex.
