[PDF] Brentano And Intrinsic Value eBook

Author : Roderick M. Chisholm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 43,42 MB
Release : 1986-01-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521269896

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A critical exposition of Franz Brentano's theory of intrinsic value.

Author : Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 11,34 MB
Release : 2006-02-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1402038461

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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.

Author : Noah M. Lemos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 34,52 MB
Release : 1994-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 052146207X

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This book explores the justification of our beliefs about intrinsic value.

Author : Michael J. Zimmerman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,34 MB
Release : 2001-08-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1461610125

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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
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 27,51 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 0742512630

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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.