tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post110801523433182124..comments2023-11-03T08:25:59.048-07:00Comments on The Enlightenment Project: Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-1109024235246011892005-02-21T14:17:00.000-08:002005-02-21T14:17:00.000-08:00Why preference satisfaction rather than straight h...<I>Why preference satisfaction rather than straight happiness?</I><A HREF="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/well-being/#4.1" REL="nofollow">Here</A> are some reasons why I think preference satisfaction is better account of welfare than strait happiness, including a discussion of Nozick's Experience Machine thought experiment.<br /><br /><I>why not acknowledge that there are numerous external Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12587322265256780784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-1109013397918017402005-02-21T11:16:00.000-08:002005-02-21T11:16:00.000-08:00Why preference satisfaction rather than straight h...Why preference satisfaction rather than straight happiness?<br /><br />I've never really understood the appeal of virtue ethics (nor, if I'm honest, of utilitarian accounts of value, until recently). But I think you are being unfair to them: why not acknowledge that there are numerous external barriers to virtue (poverty, discrimination, other people's preferences) and say that the value of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5532040.post-1108781722460662862005-02-18T18:55:00.000-08:002005-02-18T18:55:00.000-08:00Are you really safe from a life of "drudgery and c...Are you really safe from a life of "drudgery and constraint"?You "married very young and now married for 32 years",complain that "the constraints imposed by the students I have to deal with and the System in which we operate make teaching miserable". You feel held back because "In part it's because I'm female, physically unprepossessing and peculiar: if I don't work very hard to assert authority Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com