People have various desires, but it is a contested moral issue when a desire becomes of such importance that it legitimizes a moral claim on others. This paper explores how the normative significance of desire satisfaction can be assessed and argues that a normatively significant desire can constitute a pro tanto obligation to help satisfy it. The paper presents a framework that relates the normative significance of a given desire to the general goal of living a reasonably valuable life and inquires how the latter can be given determinate content without excluding a heterogeneity of the personal good. The paper contends that the set of possibly normatively significant desires is thus restricted by considerations about intelligibility, adequacy, and replaceability, which are mediated by societal background theories.

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评估欲望满足的规范意义

人们有各种各样的欲望，但当一种欲望变得如此重要以至于它使对他人的道德主张合法化时，这就是一个有争议的道德问题。本文探讨了如何评估欲望满足的规范意义，并认为具有规范意义的欲望可以构成帮助满足它的直接义务。本文提出了一个框架，将给定愿望的规范意义与过上合理有价值的生活的总体目标联系起来，并探讨如何在不排除个人利益的异质性的情况下给予后者确定的内容。该论文认为，这组可能具有规范意义的欲望因此受到对可理解性、充分性和可替代性的考虑的限制，这些考虑由社会背景理论介导。