Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
Author:
Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
Online Publish Date:
Volume 12, No. 3 (2009) There is a strong tendency in modern moral philosophy to impose restrictions on the range of desires that are to count as genuinely contributive to the desirer’s welfare. Perhaps the most frequent among such proposals is that only appropriately “informed” or “rational” desires are to count. I shall argue that the