Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version nyu B notes v1.5 12/10/84; site acf4.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!acf4!mms1646 From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: Re: Premises,Premises,Premises,... (is good logical?) Message-ID: <1310025@acf4.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 18:07:00 EDT Article-I.D.: acf4.1310025 Posted: Mon Jun 24 18:07:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 05:59:49 EDT References: <294@ihlpm.UUCP> Organization: New York University Lines: 30 >/* tonyw@ubvax.UUCP (Tony Wuersch) / 1:19 pm Jun 17, 1985 */ >> In order to maximize GOOD, we must select that system that is a member >> of the set of possible systems, such that the total good, i.e., the sum >> over all persons in the system of the good for each person, in the system >> is maximal. Your statement above fails to take into account the fact that >> within a given system, the good for all persons need not be equal. >There is a hidden implication in this, perhaps, that there is some kind >of universal good. If you look at the last sentence above, I think you will find that I was raising essentially the same objection. >Uh, uh. The set of possible systems could only be >the set of systems possible from this given moment in time and place in >space. That set is rather limited. I don't understand what this has to do with whether or not there is a universal good. >We inherit standards that place >some individuals higher than others, and these standards cannot be >thrown out as if we could separate ourselves from them. We can't. What do you mean by "standards?" Could you present some examples? >Tony Wuersch Mike Sykora