Where are goods located in time? It seems obvious that some goods exist at individual moments, like momentary pains, pleasures, and emotions. However, there also seem to be many goods that result from patterns of events across time. Such goods can be difficult to attribute to specific individual moments. If it were possible to localize all goods at individual moments, it would be relatively simple to compare the goodness of two prospective states of affairs. One could simply aggregate the goodness at each moment in each prospect, and compare the results. The present paper discusses how goods that result from patterns make such comparisons more difficult, and proposes a few methods for how these pattern goods could be localized to individual moments.
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All Goods are Momentary Goods:
Arguments for the Principle of Temporal Good
Brown Academic Paper | May 2010
By Charles Crandon | Term Paper for Professor Jamie Dreier
Awarded First Place at the Second Annual Brown University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference in 2010
Arguments for the Principle of Temporal Good
Brown Academic Paper | May 2010
By Charles Crandon | Term Paper for Professor Jamie Dreier
Awarded First Place at the Second Annual Brown University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference in 2010
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All Goods are Momentary Goods
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