The Nature Of Intrinsic Value
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| Author | : Michael J. Zimmerman |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2001-08-21 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1461610125 |
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.
| Author | : Michael J. Zimmerman |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780742512627 |
At the heart of ethics lies the concept of intrinsic value. It is at work when we assess whether a person is virtuous or vicious, and acts rightly or wrongly. This book investigates the nature of intrinsic value: what sort of thing has it, and how it is measured or quantified.
| Author | : Nicholas Agar |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9780231117869 |
Are bacteriophage T4 and the long-nosed elephant fish valuable in their own right? Agar defends an affirmative answer to this question by arguing that anything living is intrinsically valuable. The result is a challenge to prevailing definitions of value and a call for a scientifically-informed appreciation of nature.
| Author | : Scott A. Davison |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 162 |
| Release | : 2012-01-26 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1441162828 |
An innovative and concise exploration of the foundations of ethics.
| Author | : Leena Vilkka |
| Publisher | : Rodopi |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9789042003255 |
What is intrinsic value? What is the origin of value? Are people always superior to nature? This book is a philosophical analysis of the human relationship to the non-human world. It is a pioneering study of the philosophy of nature-conservation in relation to the discussion of intrinsic value. Vilkka develops a naturalistic or naturocentric theory of value that is based on ethical extensionism and pluralism. Vilkka analyzes natural values and environmental attitudes: zoocentrism, biocentrism, and ecocentrism. This book forms a taxonomy for nature having intrinsic value. The theory of intrinsic value is based on naturocentric and naturogenic values. The book questions the thesis of weak anthropocentrism that denies the existence of naturogenic values. In Vilkka's theory, animals and nature are the origin of value. She defends the existence of zoogenic and biogenic values in the non-human world and discusses the possibility of ecogenic value, nature as a whole having value independent of human or animal minds. Vilkka analyzes the goodness and rights of nature, the problem of priorities, and ecological humanism. A naturocentric recommendation is that the well-being of animals and nature should have priority over human values at least in some real decision contexts. Ecological humanism recommends an attitude of respect for people, animals, and nature. The book includes an extensive glossary, index, and bibliography.
| Author | : Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 444 |
| Release | : 2006-02-15 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1402038461 |
Recent Work on Intrinsic Value brings together for the first time many of the most important and influential writings on the topic of intrinsic value to have appeared in the last half-century. During this period, inquiry into the nature of intrinsic value has intensified to such an extent that at the moment it is one of the hottest topics in the field of theoretical ethics. The contributions to this volume have been selected in such a way that all of the fundamental questions concerning the nature of intrinsic value are treated in depth and from a variety of viewpoints. These questions include how to understand the concept of intrinsic value, what sorts of things can have intrinsic value, and how to compute intrinsic value. The editors have added an introduction that ties these questions together and places the contributions in context, and they have also provided an extensive bibliography. The result is a comprehensive, balanced, and detailed picture of current thinking about intrinsic value, one that provides an indispensable backdrop against which future writings on the topic may be assessed.
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| Total Pages | : 12 |
| Release | : 1982 |
| Genre | : Appraisal of archival materials |
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| Author | : Jonathan A. Newman |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 457 |
| Release | : 2017-10-05 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0521768861 |
This interdisciplinary and accessible book will help environmentalists to make stronger arguments in favor of conserving biodiversity.
| Author | : Ian A. Smith |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 2016-01-08 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1317605969 |
Why save endangered species without clear aesthetic, economic, or ecosystemic value? This book takes on this challenging question through an account of the intrinsic goods of species. Ian A. Smith argues that a species’ intrinsic value stems from its ability to flourish—its organisms continuing to reproduce successfully and it avoiding extinction—which helps to demonstrate a further claim, that humans ought to preserve species that we have endangered. He shows our need to exercise humility in our relations with endangered species through the preservation of their intrinsic goods, which in turn rectifies our degradation of their importance. Unique in its appeal to virtue ethics and to species concepts, The Intrinsic Value of Endangered Species is an important resource for scholars working in environmental ethics and the philosophy of biology.
| Author | : Octavio A. Chon Torres |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 434 |
| Release | : 2021-10-12 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1119711169 |
ASTROBIOLOGY This unique book advances the frontier discussion of a wide spectrum of astrobiological issues on scientific advances, space ethics, social impact, religious meaning, and public policy formulation. Astrobiology is an exploding discipline in which not only the natural sciences, but also the social sciences and humanities converge. Astrobiology: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy is a multidisciplinary book that presents different perspectives and points of view by its contributing specialists. Epistemological, moral and political issues arising from astrobiology, convey the complexity of challenges posed by the search for life elsewhere in the universe. We ask: if a convoy of colonists from Earth make the trip to Mars, should their genomes be edited to adapt to the Red Planet’s environment? If scientists discover a biosphere with microbial life within our solar system, will it possess intrinsic value or merely utilitarian value? If astronomers discover an intelligent civilization on an exoplanet elsewhere in the Milky Way, what would be humanity’s moral responsibility: to protect Earth from an existential threat? To treat other intelligences with dignity? To exploit through interstellar commerce? To conquer? Audience The book will attract readers from a wide range of interests including astronomers, astrobiologists, chemists, biologists, space engineers, ethicists, theologians and philosophers.
