more on this theme | more from this thinker
Full Idea
It is a mistake to think pleasure is the only thing that is valuable for its own sake. It confuses final value with the intrinsic value of pleasure. (note: Intrinsic value is apart from any relationships or contexts).
Gist of Idea
Pleasure has an intrinsic (independent) value, but that is not a final (for its own sake) value
Source
Tom Cochrane (The Aesthetic Value of the World [2021], 0.2)
Book Ref
Cochrane,Tom: 'The Aesthetic Value of the World' [OUP 2021], p.2
A Reaction
Cochrane says the value of most pleasure is extrinsic (i.e. valued because of its connection to something else). Cochrane is defending aesthetic appreciation as a final value. Not sure his distinction is clear enough. But interesting. Hedonists disagree.
| 24164 | Even non-theists can wonder what, if anything, makes the universe good [Cochrane] |
| 24165 | Pleasure has an intrinsic (independent) value, but that is not a final (for its own sake) value [Cochrane] |
| 24166 | Pleasure serves to maintain our relationship with its source [Cochrane] |
| 24167 | Love is a mutual reciprocation, not just a desire for something [Cochrane] |
| 24169 | We can treat value as a verb; we value something when we positively engage with it [Cochrane] |
| 24168 | Aesthetic value appreciates a thing objectively, as a good in its own right [Cochrane] |
| 24171 | Morality is not a final value; it concerns how we distribute the things we actually finally value [Cochrane] |
| 24173 | We can only understand form if we grasp the whole of which things are parts [Cochrane] |
| 24174 | Beauty is fittingness, of details uniting within a pattern [Cochrane] |
| 24175 | Accounts of sublimity differ over whether we learn something good about ourselves [Cochrane] |
| 24176 | A person's activities have value when they receive full attention [Cochrane] |