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Pleasure and Desire
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This chapter extends the argument of earlier chapters to cases of pleasure and desires. As before, it is argued that compassion is required to be in touch with other creatures’ states. After identifying a motivational feature of most pleasures, which can be described in imperatival terms, the chapter considers the intuitive moral asymmetry between pleasure and pain: promoting pleasure does not seem to be as straightforwardly good as alleviating pain. Two explanations for this asymmetry are offered using the notion of being in touch. Desire is then considered, and it is argued that familiar types of moral goodness involve agents being in touch with the conscious manifestations of desires.
Title: Pleasure and Desire
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This chapter extends the argument of earlier chapters to cases of pleasure and desires.
As before, it is argued that compassion is required to be in touch with other creatures’ states.
After identifying a motivational feature of most pleasures, which can be described in imperatival terms, the chapter considers the intuitive moral asymmetry between pleasure and pain: promoting pleasure does not seem to be as straightforwardly good as alleviating pain.
Two explanations for this asymmetry are offered using the notion of being in touch.
Desire is then considered, and it is argued that familiar types of moral goodness involve agents being in touch with the conscious manifestations of desires.
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