The Methods of Ethics

CHAPTER IX

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GOOD

1. Another important variety of Intuitionism is constituted by substituting for “right” the wider notion “good.” 105-106

2. The common judgment that a thing is “good” does not on reflection appear to be equivalent to a judgment that it is directly or indirectly pleasant. 106-109

3. “Good” = “desirable” or “reasonably desired”: as applied to conduct, the term does not convey so definite a dictate as “right,” and it is not confined to the strictly voluntary. 109-113

4. There are many other things commonly judged to be good: but reflection shows that nothing is ultimately good except some mode of human existence. 113-115