What is “good” or goodness?
It turns out that this is a highly non-trivial question that requires one to come into possession of the correct ontology.
There are, I argue, in fact 4 types of goodness: physical, moral, metaphysical, and divine.
This bird’s-eye view helps me to solve a number of difficult problems in metaethics, the most fundamental of which is the incompatibility between the Humean theory of motivation, objectivity, and internalism.
My solution takes care of everything.
Capitalism, they say, contains in itself the seeds of its own destruction, because the general prosperity it creates finances the emergence of a leisure class of intellectuals whose main occupation is denouncing capitalism.
G.A. Cohen was one such miscreant.
For the health of society, he must be bled. And by the end of my book, he is an exsanguinated corpse.
David Friedman tries to fix with "what's wrong with the world" and fails miserably.
This universe is not our true home. Why then are we here? If men live only one life as Christianity affirms, then perhaps this is a natural place to get one's eternal life started.
If, however, as I think, there is something to the doctrines of metempsychosis and suchlike, then we must admit that the main answer is to improve in all of our faculties.
But in that case, this universe is somewhat of a simulation: a boot camp for both the soul and the body.
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