Nornagest comments on On Terminal Goals and Virtue Ethics - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nornagest 20 June 2014 04:49:50PM *  4 points [-]

We can go a step further, actually: "teminal value" and various synonyms are well-established within philosophy, where they usually carry the familiar LW meaning of "something that has value in itself, not as a means to an end".