Attitudinal Hedonism
Answer A and B:
Living Well: Complete the following chart (50 points)
View Living well consists in…
Good because God says so [Fill in]
God says so because it’s good Living well does not consist in doing what God says, even though doing what God says is doing the same as what amounts to living well.
Mill’s version of Hedonism (Quality Hedonism) [Fill in]
Attitudinal Hedonism Living well consists in enjoying (or taking attitudinal pleasure) states of affairs and not taking attitudinal pain in states of affairs; the more instances, intensity, or duration of enjoyment, and the less of attitudinal pain, the better one lives.
Desert-Adjusted Attitudinal Hedonism [Fill in]
Hedonisms (150 points, ~750 words)
Choose a specific version of Hedonism we’ve discussed (for instance, one of the four from part A), and offer an argument in favor of it specifically.
Present the best objection you can to the argument from B.1. (Does that argument make an unwarranted assumption have a false premise or does its conclusion not follow strictly from the premises is it invalid?)
Defend the argument in B.1 as best you can (you can either argue that the objection in B.2 is misplaced or you can modify the original argument in B.1 so that it isn’t vulnerable to the objection). Is your defense enough to save the argument?
