Maybe what I would discover instead, if I actually charted out my value structure, that all of the things I value exist in an interlocking network that doesn’t ground out in any special real, true, honest-to-goodness, fundamental, basic, not-dependent-on-anything, terminal values.
While I’m not committed to the absence of terminal values, I consider the possibility plausible, and I don’t find the “well, there’s got to be something at the bottom of the stack!” argument for their presence convincing.
Absolutely true. Was responding to the last bit of your comment and ended up completely disregarding your greater context… sorry.
This is a bit of a hobbyhorse of mine at the moment, especially since so much of the discussion about ethics here seems predicated on the existence of terminal values that can’t be interpreted in terms of anything else.
Maybe what I would discover instead, if I actually charted out my value structure, that all of the things I value exist in an interlocking network that doesn’t ground out in any special real, true, honest-to-goodness, fundamental, basic, not-dependent-on-anything, terminal values.
It sounds like your value structure represents (hazily specified) terminal values.
Not necessarily.
Maybe what I would discover instead, if I actually charted out my value structure, that all of the things I value exist in an interlocking network that doesn’t ground out in any special real, true, honest-to-goodness, fundamental, basic, not-dependent-on-anything, terminal values.
While I’m not committed to the absence of terminal values, I consider the possibility plausible, and I don’t find the “well, there’s got to be something at the bottom of the stack!” argument for their presence convincing.
That still doesn’t answer the question of why that value structure as opposed to some other.
Absolutely true. Was responding to the last bit of your comment and ended up completely disregarding your greater context… sorry.
This is a bit of a hobbyhorse of mine at the moment, especially since so much of the discussion about ethics here seems predicated on the existence of terminal values that can’t be interpreted in terms of anything else.
It sounds like your value structure represents (hazily specified) terminal values.
It doesn’t sound that way to me, so if you unpack it I’d be interested.