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Single Idea 18238
[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value
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Full Idea
A good will is that whereby alone [man's] being can have an absolute worth and in reference to which the being of the world can have a final purpose.
Gist of Idea
Only a good will can give man's being, and hence the world, a final purpose
Source
Immanuel Kant (Critique of Judgement II: Teleological [1790], C3 443), quoted by Christine M. Korsgaard - Aristotle and Kant on the Source of Value 8 'Kant'
Book Ref
Korsgaard,Christine M.: 'Creating the Kingdom of Ends' [CUP 1996], p.243
A Reaction
I wish Kant gave a better account of what a 'good' will consists of. This is an awful burden to bear when you are making decisions.
The
34 ideas
with the same theme
[what has the highest value or desirablity]:
23400
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Righteousness is extending the unthinkable, to reveal what must be done
[Mengzi (Mencius)]
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18230
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No one would choose life just for activities not done for their own sake
[Aristotle]
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20863
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The goal is to 'live in agreement', according to one rational consistent principle
[Zeno of Citium, by Stobaeus]
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20864
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Live in agreement, according to experience of natural events
[Chrysippus]
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20870
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The goal is to live consistently with the constitution of a human being
[Stoic school, by Clement]
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6209
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There is no absolute good, for even the goodness of God is goodness to us
[Hobbes]
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6221
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If there are different ultimate goods, there will be conflicting good actions, which is impossible
[Cumberland]
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18239
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What is contemplated must have a higher value than contemplation
[Kant, by Korsgaard]
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18238
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Only a good will can give man's being, and hence the world, a final purpose
[Kant]
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21431
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The love of man is required in order to present the world as a beautiful and perfect moral whole
[Kant]
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21437
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All morality directs the will to love of others' ends, and respect for others' rights
[Kant]
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18675
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Kant may rate two things as finally valuable: having a good will, and deserving happiness
[Orsi on Kant]
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22007
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An autonomous agent has dignity [Würde], which has absolute worth
[Kant, by Pinkard]
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18234
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The good will is unconditionally good, because it is the only possible source of value
[Kant, by Korsgaard]
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6192
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Good or evil cannot be a thing, but only a maxim of action, making the person good or evil
[Kant]
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7669
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We cannot attain all the ideals of every culture, so there cannot be a perfect life
[Herder, by Berlin]
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5649
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Will casts aside each of its temporary fulfilments, so human life has no ultimate aim
[Schopenhauer, by Scruton]
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23760
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All we need are the unity of justice, truth and beauty
[Weil]
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23439
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Principles are not ultimate, but arise from the necessities of human life
[Foot]
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22452
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Do we have a concept of value, other than wanting something, or making an effort to get it?
[Foot]
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9233
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Our criteria for evaluating how to live offer an answer to the problem
[Frankfurt]
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9229
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What is worthwhile for its own sake alone may be worth very little
[Frankfurt]
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22410
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Maybe the unthinkable is a moral category, and considering some options is dishonourable or absurd
[Williams,B]
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18648
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Freedom to live according to our own conception of the good is the ultimate value
[Nozick, by Kymlicka]
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18541
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Beauty (unlike truth and goodness) is questionable as an ultimate value
[Scruton]
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20151
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Our attitudes include what possibilities we value, and also what is allowable, and unthinkable
[Kekes]
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20152
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Unconditional commitments are our most basic convictions, saying what must never be done
[Kekes]
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20153
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Doing the unthinkable damages ourselves, so it is more basic than any value
[Kekes]
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18228
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An end can't be an ultimate value just because it is useless!
[Korsgaard]
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18225
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If we can't reason about value, we can reason about the unconditional source of value
[Korsgaard]
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7067
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Food first, then ethics
[Critchley]
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18677
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A thing may have final value, which is still derived from other values, or from relations
[Orsi]
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24168
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Aesthetic value appreciates a thing objectively, as a good in its own right
[Cochrane]
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24171
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Morality is not a final value; it concerns how we distribute the things we actually finally value
[Cochrane]
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