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Is it wrong to want power, just for the sake of power?
June 24, 2010
| Response from David Brink on June 24, 2010 |
Most people think that power, like money, is an instrumental good -- not good in itself, but rather good, if at all and because, it enables us to do other things that are good, prudentially or morally. And, of course, power can often be instrumentally bad, insofar as it enables us to do imprudent or immoral things. If that common view about the value of power is correct, then it would be inappropriate to value power for its own sake.
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