I've heard numerous people try to justify other values numerous times, but never successfully. Moreover, it's not a matter of me not knowing, it's a matter of someone who says "This is good even though it's not pleasurable" doesn't give any convincingly motivating justification for it.
I've heard numerous people try to justify other values numerous times, but never successfully.
You are aware that there is, for example, a quite large corpus of world literature which has rather thoroughly and seriously engaged the subject of values other than pleasure and pain?
doesn't give any convincingly motivating justification for it.
Emotional states and terminal values have no justification and need no justification. They just are.
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