More tedious metaethics

Brad DeLong delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Sun May 12 12:45:44 PDT 2002



>>It's probably a good idea not to fetishize "value" as if it were
>>some substance that ethical action intends to maximize.
>
>No one thinks value is a substance.

Save Karl Marx, of course, who thought value was created by "productive labor", and could not be created or destroyed--but only transformed and transferred--thereafter...



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