Intrinsic Value and the Argument from Regress

• Authors: Julia Tanner
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Proponents of the argument from regress maintain that the existence of Instrumental Value is sufficient to establish the existence of Intrinsic Value. It is argued that the chain of instrumentally valuable things has to end somewhere. Namely with intrinsic value. In this paper, I shall argue something a little more modest than this. I do not want to argue that the regress argument proves that there is intrinsic value but rather that it proves that the idea of intrinsic value is a necessary part of our thinking about moral value.

Keywords

EN

aesthetics; argument from regress; intrinsic value; Smith, Tara; values

• Publisher: Akademia Ignatianum w Krakowie
• Journal: Forum Philosophicum
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 313-322

Dates

published

2007

Contributors

author

Julia Tanner

• University of Durham

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10.5840/forphil20071227

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