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So we now have to move to an informed desire version of the comprehensive theory.
Yet Dewey's aims differ from that of most of today's informed desire theorists.
According to the informed desire account, the best life is the one I would desire if I were fully informed about all the (non-evaluative) facts.
Informed desire theories of the good, which define the good in terms of what an individual would desire if fully informed, come closest to Dewey's own account of the good.
This can be seen in his critiques and methodological reinterpretations of the three types of theory of goodness dominant today: hedonism, ideal (objective list) theories, and informed desire theory.
His view is a foundational monist one on my classification: he thinks that the basic value is informed desire fulfillment, and he is a normative pluralist because he thinks that we desire irreducibly plural things, and so from our point of view there are plural values.
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Preference utilitarians can respond by limiting the preferences that make something good, such as by referring to informed desires that do not disappear after therapy (Brandt 1979).
Sexual desire was certainly a part of it, but the intensity of that urgency was not informed by desire –it was informed by need.
(That's literally true in Terratektorh, in which the orchestra perform from within the audience – it would have been fun to be part of this performance conducted by Matthias Pintscher…) Xenakis has said that his war-time experience informed his desire to create his new kind of sound-experience.
"That experience really informed my desire to be in public service".
As a Christian, what writings informed your desire to go and learn at a monastery?
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