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The Nature of Intrinsic Value
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2001
Summary
At the heart of ethics reside the concepts of good and bad; they are at work when we assess whether a person is virtuous or vicious, an act right or wrong, a decision defensible or indefensible, a goal desirable or undesirable. But there are many varieties of goodness and badness. At their core lie intrinsic goodness and badness, the sort of value that something has for its own sake. It is in virtue of intrinsic value that other types of value may be understood, and hence that we can begin to come to terms with questions of virtue and vice, right and wrong, and so on. This book investigates the nature of intrinsic value: just what it is for something to be valuable for its own sake, just what sort of thing can have such value, just how such a value is to be computed. In the final chapter, the fruits of this investigation are applied to a discussion of pleasure, pain, and displeasure and also of moral virtue and vice, in order to determine just what value lies within these phenomena.
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Edition
1/2001
Copyright Year
2001
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-1262-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-1012-0
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
279
Product Type
Monograph
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Table of Contents No access
List of Illustrations No access
Preface No access
1: Introduction No access Pages 1 - 14
2: Defending the Concept of Intrinsic Value No access Pages 15 - 32
3: The Bearers of Intrinsic Value No access Pages 33 - 74
4: Analyzing the Concept of Intrinsic Value No access Pages 75 - 130
5: Computing Intrinsic Value No access Pages 131 - 188
6: Instances of Intrinsic Value No access Pages 189 - 250
Appendix Extrinsic Value No access Pages 251 - 260
