This sounds, to me, like it’s just the distinction between terminal and instrumental values. I don’t terminally value eating licorice jelly beans, I just like the way they taste and the feeling of pleasure they give me. If you switched the tastes of buttered popcorn jelly beans (yuck indeed) and licorice jelly beans, that would be fine by me. Hell, it would be an improvement since no one else likes that flavor (more for me!). The situation is NOT the same for “autonomy of individuals” and “uniformity of individuals” before I really do have terminal values for these things, apart from the way they make me feel.
The situation is NOT the same for “autonomy of individuals” and “uniformity of individuals” before I really do have terminal values for these things, apart from the way they make me feel.
How do you know that?
What would you expect to experience if your preference for individual autonomy in fact derived from something else?
This sounds, to me, like it’s just the distinction between terminal and instrumental values. I don’t terminally value eating licorice jelly beans, I just like the way they taste and the feeling of pleasure they give me. If you switched the tastes of buttered popcorn jelly beans (yuck indeed) and licorice jelly beans, that would be fine by me. Hell, it would be an improvement since no one else likes that flavor (more for me!). The situation is NOT the same for “autonomy of individuals” and “uniformity of individuals” before I really do have terminal values for these things, apart from the way they make me feel.
How do you know that?
What would you expect to experience if your preference for individual autonomy in fact derived from something else?
It was meant as a hypothetical. I don’t actually know.
Ah. Sorry; I thought you were endorsing the idea.