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 | | He maintains that "good" is a second-order property, a quantifier of qualities: to call a thing good is to contend that it is all there under its concept. |
 | | Values collectivism is the view that individual lives (or their eudaimonia) are only instrumentally valuable, i.e., good only as a means to, or as an outcome of the flourishing of society; the flourishing of society (whatever this might be) is the only intrinsically good thing. |
 | | The goodness of a particular experience, of an individual's whole life, of society, and of an ecosystem, are all worth having for their own sake, and not merely as a means to something else. |
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