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Single Idea 6677
[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / d. Subjective value
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Full Idea
Imagination decides everything: it creates beauty, justice and happiness, which is the world's supreme good.
Gist of Idea
Imagination creates beauty, justice and happiness, which is the supreme good
Source
Blaise Pascal (Pensées [1662], 44 (82))
Book Ref
Pascal,Blaise: 'Pensées', ed/tr. Krailsheimer,A.J. [Penguin 1966], p.41
A Reaction
Compare Fogelin's remark in Idea 6555. I see Pascal's point, but these ideals are also responses to facts about the world, such as human potential and human desire and successful natural functions.
Related Idea
Idea 6555
We are also irrational, with a unique ability to believe in bizarre self-created fictions [Fogelin]
The
17 ideas
with the same theme
[values arising from a human perspective]:
20847
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The appraiser's value is what is set by someone experienced in the facts
[Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
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6677
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Imagination creates beauty, justice and happiness, which is the supreme good
[Pascal]
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4845
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We don't want things because they are good; we judge things to be good because we want them
[Spinoza]
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9749
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Our rational choices confer value, arising from the sense that we ourselves are important
[Kant, by Korsgaard]
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7671
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Values are created by human choices, and are not some intrinsic quality, out there
[Kant, by Berlin]
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22023
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Fichte's idea of spontaneity implied that nothing counts unless we give it status
[Fichte, by Pinkard]
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4181
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Every good is essentially relative, for it has its essential nature only in its relation to a desiring will
[Schopenhauer]
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24101
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We always assign values, but we may not value those values
[Nietzsche]
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20370
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All evaluation is from some perspective, and aims at survival
[Nietzsche]
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20354
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The ruling drives of our culture all want to be the highest court of our values
[Nietzsche]
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22228
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Sartre's freedom is not for whimsical action, but taking responsibility for our own values
[Sartre, by Daigle]
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3852
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If values depend on us, freedom is the foundation of all values
[Sartre]
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9232
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It is by caring about things that we infuse the world with importance
[Frankfurt]
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9234
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If you don't care about at least one thing, you can't find reasons to care about anything
[Frankfurt]
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23944
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Emotions are our life force, and the source of most of our values
[Solomon]
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8109
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Aesthetic judgements necessarily require first-hand experience, unlike moral judgements
[Gardner]
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24176
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A person's activities have value when they receive full attention
[Cochrane]
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