please kill me.

Question 1

what does Hurka belive about the measurability of the goodness of knowledge, pleasure, virtue, and achievement? Why?

Answer 1

Although Hurka could provide rough guidelines for the commensurability of goodness, eg an increase in goodness is not as good as an increase in badness of the same magnitude.
- This makes sense sometimes; if your life is already pleasurable, than an increase in knowledge will be more valuable than an increase in pleasure.

But is knowing everything about ww2 just as valuable than being a CEO of a company?
(high knowledge vs high achievement)

the comparative goodness of knowledge, pleasure, virtue, and achievement is only roughly commensurable.

Question 2

pros and cons of a well rounded life

Answer 2

your life will have balance, but you will risk being mediocre

Question 3

pros of specializing in one aspect of happiness

Answer 3

you will have more than one good thing compared to everything else

Question 4

concentration problem

Answer 4

when specializing in one aspect of goodness
- for each increase in an area of goodness you will experience diminishing returns

Question 5

innovation problem

Answer 5

if you were to specialize in one aspect of goodness
- specialization makes it more difficult to discover new things
ex: new baseball strategies were formed through a mix of statistics and baseball knowledge

Question 6

sum aggregationism + refutation

Answer 6

the value of one’s whole life = sum of total value your life had contained

• if this is true, than someone who has lived an extremely valuable` life for 70 years might be less valuable than someone who has lived a mediocre life but lived for 1000 years.