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AGAINST ABSOLUTE GOODNESS
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AGAINST ABSOLUTE GOODNESS

RICHARD KRAUT

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I0100221393
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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Year of edition:
2011
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9780199844463
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Are there things we should value because they are, quite simply, good? If so, such things might be said to have 'absolute goodness.' They would be good simpliciter or full stop - not good for someone, not good of a kind, but nonetheless good (period). They might also be called 'impersonal values.' The reason why we ought to value such things, if there are any, would merely be the fact that they are, quite simply, good things. In the twentieth century, G. E. Moore was the great champion of absolute goodness, but he is not the only philosopher who posits the existence and importance of this property.

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