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    G.E. Moore's ideal utilitarianism holds that beauty, know... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→If one activity is correctly valued more than another, it must be because the first produces more numerous, intense, or durable pleasures.

    G.E. Moore's ideal utilitarianism holds that beauty, knowledge, and friendship have intrinsic value independent of the pleasure they produce.

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    • 1.We value knowledge even when it causes suffering, suggesting value beyond pleasure production.
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    • 2.A world with beautiful art but no observers has value, indicating intrinsic rather than experiential value.
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    • 3.Friendship's worth persists even when it generates anxiety or hardship, not reducible to net pleasure.
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    • 1.Without conscious experience, claims about intrinsic value become metaphysically mysterious and unverifiable.
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    • 2.Our preferences for beauty, knowledge, and friendship evolved because they reliably produced fitness benefits, undermining intrinsic value claims.
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    • 3.Moore cannot explain why we should care about intrinsic values without appealing to their ultimate connection to well-being.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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