RE: Maximizing Moral Virtue
June 23, 2022 at 9:27 am
(This post was last modified: June 23, 2022 at 9:29 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Hedonism is more about making you feel good, not so much the other guy. Ostensibly, doing things that make other people happy might cause you to feel bad, and so, fail at the primary aim of pure hedonism.
You'd rather not walk to the store, and I'd rather not have to drive to the store - but neither of these things is, at first glance, an item of moral import or an expression of any particular moral system. Examples such as these are why pure hedonism is questioned as a moral system at all. Doing things because they feel good (to you, or to someone else) is a thing, but may not be the same thing as doing things for moral reasons. Thus, maximizing pleasure may not maximize virtue.
To turn hedonism into something moral, people generally add the modifer "ethical hedonism" - but this..ofc, shows that there's ethics being applied to hedonism...and whatever that was, would be the actual moral system involved.
You'd rather not walk to the store, and I'd rather not have to drive to the store - but neither of these things is, at first glance, an item of moral import or an expression of any particular moral system. Examples such as these are why pure hedonism is questioned as a moral system at all. Doing things because they feel good (to you, or to someone else) is a thing, but may not be the same thing as doing things for moral reasons. Thus, maximizing pleasure may not maximize virtue.
To turn hedonism into something moral, people generally add the modifer "ethical hedonism" - but this..ofc, shows that there's ethics being applied to hedonism...and whatever that was, would be the actual moral system involved.
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