ABSTRACT
We seem to have a problem of hypothetical approval in the full information account of a person’s good that prevails even in the modern versions of this account.
I support the ambition of the information requirement, namely to combine the normativity of the rational and the plausibility of internalism, that is to say, the view that in order for something to be normative or valuable for me, it must somehow connect with my personality and motivational set-up. My personal good is personal also in the sense of being tailor-made for me and not being alien to me.1 In a similar vein, the requirement is also supported by the autonomy ideal, by claiming that I must somehow recognize and accept a personal value. Therefore, to acknowledge a problem of hypothetical approval is not necessarily an ideological critique of the information requirement.
