Full Idea
That "I simply don't like staying at good hotels" is intelligible brings out the basic weakness of prescriptive accounts of the evaluative.
Gist of Idea
The weakness of prescriptivism is shown by "I simply don't like staying at good hotels"
Source
Bernard Williams (Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy [1985], Ch. 7)
Book Reference
Williams,Bernard: 'Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy' [Fontana 1985], p.125
A Reaction
This might be an elision of two different prescriptions, mine and most people's. In what sense do I think the hotel good, as opposed to other people?