by extension, judgements, are ill-informed than the entire system falls apart, which is why they say they are crucial. In order for it to work you have to have a proper perspective to make judgements, and in order to gain that you have to think carefully about subjective values to make sure they are appropriate. To help form appropriate values there have to be some restrictions. These particular restrictions include values that are informed and that fit the person. There cannot be any radically false beliefs and there has to be enough information to make a decision. And, they can only be possibilities that are available and not out of reach. For example, at the very beginning of my search for a school to go to no one I was looking at schools
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To prove his point he references the experience machine, similar to The Matrix. What if you could choose a life, plug into that machine, and live the rest of your life plugged into it? This is assuming that as soon as you plug in you forget that you are plugged in. Nozick believes that value is good in itself, but that there are some independent of happiness. Such a moral commitments, like who you would leave behind. What if you have a partner you committed to spending your life with? What if you had a pet you adopted that you need to take care of? What if you lease an apartment from a landlord, if you are gone, where would the landlord get their money? Although, most importantly we value interconnectedness with other humans. Genuine contact. In the experience machine, you lose autonomy as well. There is not room for growth because you are no longer the author of your own life. In the experience machine you picked the life before entering it, and now you must live …show more content…
He argues that we want more than to think our lives are a certain way we want to them to actually be that way. I want more than to think my partner is faithful to me, I want them to be faithful. Nozick’s experience machine reminds me of Mill’s pig example both are extremely hedonistic. Both as a pig and in the experience machine you lose autonomy and your ability to create. You lack authentic human experiences. He questions the value we place on happiness, if we in fact have all the others values independent of happiness He argues that we really want is the “good life”. “What is there to be happy about”? What constitutes the “good life”? He argues that happiness is more than just an emotion or feeling that there are many different types. Although, I think most important, he asks the question of do we want happiness to be the only constant in ourselves? He would say no. He says that “We want to experience other feelings too, ones with valuable aspects that happiness does not possess as strongly” (THO, 259).There is a plethora of emotions and feelings that we experience every day, often a combination, directed at several different aspects of our lives. He argues that we want happiness to come out of life, not to try to mold our lives around being
To prove his point he references the experience machine, similar to The Matrix. What if you could choose a life, plug into that machine, and live the rest of your life plugged into it? This is assuming that as soon as you plug in you forget that you are plugged in. Nozick believes that value is good in itself, but that there are some independent of happiness. Such a moral commitments, like who you would leave behind. What if you have a partner you committed to spending your life with? What if you had a pet you adopted that you need to take care of? What if you lease an apartment from a landlord, if you are gone, where would the landlord get their money? Although, most importantly we value interconnectedness with other humans. Genuine contact. In the experience machine, you lose autonomy as well. There is not room for growth because you are no longer the author of your own life. In the experience machine you picked the life before entering it, and now you must live …show more content…
He argues that we want more than to think our lives are a certain way we want to them to actually be that way. I want more than to think my partner is faithful to me, I want them to be faithful. Nozick’s experience machine reminds me of Mill’s pig example both are extremely hedonistic. Both as a pig and in the experience machine you lose autonomy and your ability to create. You lack authentic human experiences. He questions the value we place on happiness, if we in fact have all the others values independent of happiness He argues that we really want is the “good life”. “What is there to be happy about”? What constitutes the “good life”? He argues that happiness is more than just an emotion or feeling that there are many different types. Although, I think most important, he asks the question of do we want happiness to be the only constant in ourselves? He would say no. He says that “We want to experience other feelings too, ones with valuable aspects that happiness does not possess as strongly” (THO, 259).There is a plethora of emotions and feelings that we experience every day, often a combination, directed at several different aspects of our lives. He argues that we want happiness to come out of life, not to try to mold our lives around being