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Intrinsic value (ethics)

Intrinsic value (ethics)
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ethical or philosophic value that an object has "in itself" or "for its own sake"

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  1. Almost all ethical writers have committed the naturalistic fallacy--they have failed to perceive that the notion of intrinsic value is simple and unique; and almost all have failed, in consequence, to distinguish clearly between means and end--they have discussed, as if it were simple and unambiguous, the question, ‘What ought we to do?’ or ‘What ought to exist now?’ without distinguishing whether the reason why a…

    G. E. Moore, Principia Ethica

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  2. Certain things which have intrinsic value are distinguished from others, by the fact that more good consequences are apt to flow from them; and where this is the case, we are apt, I think, quite unjustly, to think that their intrinsic value must be higher too. One thing, I think, is clear about intrinsic value--goodness in Aristotle's sense--namely that it is only actual occurrences, actual states of things over a…

    G. E. Moore, Philosophical Studies

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  3. The term "value" has two quite different meanings. On the one hand, it denotes the attitude of prizing a thing finding it worth while, for its own sake, or intrinsically. This is a name for a full or complete experience. To value in this sense is to appreciate. But to value also means a distinctively intellectual act--an operation of comparing and judging--to valuate.

    John Dewey, Democracy and Education

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Part of Australian philosophy.

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