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The Nature of Intrinsic Value

Download or Read eBook The Nature of Intrinsic Value PDF written by Michael J. Zimmerman and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2001-08-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Nature of Intrinsic Value
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9781461610120
ISBN-13 : 1461610125
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Book Synopsis The Nature of Intrinsic Value by : Michael J. Zimmerman

Book excerpt: 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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