Recent Work on Intrinsic Value

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rønnow-Rasmussen, Toni (Editor), Zimmerman, Michael J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy, 17
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Ethics.; Philosophy, general.

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 th...

Table of Contents:

• Intrinsic Value
• Isolating Intrinsic Value
• Defining Intrinsic Value
• The Concept of Intrinsic Value
• Should We Pass the Buck?
• Hyperventilating about Intrinsic Value
• Intrinsic Value
• Two Distinctions in Goodness
• Rethinking Intrinsic Value
• A Distinction in Value: Intrinsic and for Its Own Sake
• The Right and the Good
• Defending the Concept of Intrinsic Value
• Objectives and Intrinsic Value
• The Bearers of Intrinsic Value
• Intrinsic Value and Individual Worth
• A Concrete View of Intrinsic Value
• Tropic of Value
• The Intrinsic Value in Disjunctive States of Affairs
• Improved Foundations for a Logic of Intrinsic Value
• Counterexamples to the Transitivity of ‘Better Than’
• Defending Transitivity Against Zeno’s Paradox
• Intransitivity Without Zeno’s Paradox
• The Structure of Higher Goods
• Superiority in Value
• Organic Unities
• Chisholm’s Definition of Organic Unity
• The Particularist’s Progress
• Toward a Theory of Intrinsic Value
• The Intrinsic Value of Non-Basic States of Affairs
• Harman’s Equation and Non-Basic Intrinsic Value
• Basic Intrinsic Value
• Virtual Intrinsic Value and the Principle of Organic Unities.