“The we-intention Sellars regards as intrinsically valid-"It shallwe be the case that each of us rational beings so acts as to promote our welfare" — embodies a particular conception of what is good —namely, the welfare of rational beings. How, though, to establish the superiority of this account of the good over the rational egoist's account? Sellars lays out a strategy for doing so but despairs of carrying this strategy through:
To have this intention is to think of oneself as a member of a community consisting of all rational beings. ...
144. If ... the following two premises were established, this community could be shown to be a reality:
“The we-intention Sellars regards as intrinsically valid-"It shallwe be the case that each of us rational beings so acts as to promote our welfare" — embodies a particular conception of what is good —namely, the welfare of rational beings. How, though, to establish the superiority of this account of the good over the rational egoist's account? Sellars lays out a strategy for doing so but despairs of carrying this strategy through:
To have this intention is to think of oneself as a member of a community consisting of all rational beings. ...
144. If ... the following two premises were established, this community could be shown to be a reality:
- To think of oneself as
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