Had two very interesting lectures today. Something in my Ethics class really got me to think;
“You think someone is your friend, but he ridicules you behind you back. No one tells you, so you never know. Is this unfortunate for you? Hedonists would have to say that it is not, because you are never caused any pain. Yet we feel there is something bad going on. You think he is your friend, and you are “being made a fool”, even though you are unaware of it and suffer no unhappiness.”
The, our prof proceeded to pose the following question, which Aristotle had pondered many years back:
“What makes your life intrinsically good, for you?”
Definitely some intense food for thoughts. And forsure those idiots are Value Hedonists.
Source: The Elements of Moral Philosophy by James Rachels // Aristotle
