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    Challenges→Griffin's view may not be genuinely monist at the foundational level

    Adding constraints to qualify which desires confer value may introduce foundational pluralism

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    However, it is not entirely clear that a view like Griffin’s is genuinely monist at the foundational level: the question arises, what is constraining the desires that qualify as value conferring? If the answer is ‘nothing’, then the view seems genuinely monist, but is probably implausible. Unconstrained desire accounts of value seem implausible because our desires can be for all sorts of things—we may desire things that are bad for us, or we may desire things because of some mistake we have mad

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