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Instrumental and intrinsic value
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To value in the latter sense is to valuate or evaluate. The distinction coincides with that sometimes made between intrinsic and instrumental values. Intrinsic values are not objects of judgment, they cannot (as intrinsic) be compared, or regarded as greater and less, better or worse.
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
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Just that action which extends and approves intelligence has an intrinsic value of its own in being instrumental:--the intrinsic value of being informed with intelligence in behalf of the enrichment of life. By the same stroke, intelligence becomes truly liberal: knowing is a human undertaking, not an esthetic appreciation carried on by a refined class or a capitalistic possession of a few learned specialists…
John Dewey, Creative Intelligence
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The discussion of the true intrinsic worth of the impulses, inclinations, and passions is thus essentially the theory of legal, moral, and social _duties_. § 475. The subject is the act of satisfying impulses, an act of (at least) formal rationality, as it translates them from the subjectivity of content (which so far is _purpose_) into objectivity, where the subject is made to close with itself. If the content of…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Philosophy of Mind
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Related ideas
- Empiricism
- Belief
- Natural kind
- Immanuel Kant
- John Dewey
- Ad hoc
- Logical positivism
- Metaphysics
- Anthropomorphism
- Max Weber
- Anti-realism
- Ontology
- Instrumentalism
- Scientific realism
- Utilitarianism
- Libertarianism
- Inductive reasoning
- Moral reasoning
- Disenchantment
- Epistemology
- Ethics
- Anjan Chakravartty
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Part of Anarchism.
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