RE: Do humans have inherent value?
June 14, 2021 at 9:43 am
(This post was last modified: June 14, 2021 at 9:51 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Or when we consider what (or whatever) we describe as the inherent quality of man. If human beings are inherent moralizers, for example. Say it's a weird tick of our biology - then there can be no state of affairs with humans present in which value will be absent. It's unclear that we always value-for-purpose, fundamentally. So, if our values-for-purpose are one set..and we don't call those inherent because they rely on their utility to us...what do we call the other set?
Is it mistaken apprehension in those cases? So that we can accept that these values have no (or no clear) utility to us - it's just something we do and (sometimes) get right, getting it right defined as apprehending only those values which are of use to us.
Imagine a good thing which causes you no joy, and has no relationship or utility to you whatsoever. We can reasonably expect that human beings will have utilitarian values, but what is this other set? An association error, perhaps? Apophetic ideations over value noise created as a byproduct of an otherwise (and always) utilitarian natural mechanism?
Maybe we're value flowers prettying up the landscape.
Is it mistaken apprehension in those cases? So that we can accept that these values have no (or no clear) utility to us - it's just something we do and (sometimes) get right, getting it right defined as apprehending only those values which are of use to us.
Imagine a good thing which causes you no joy, and has no relationship or utility to you whatsoever. We can reasonably expect that human beings will have utilitarian values, but what is this other set? An association error, perhaps? Apophetic ideations over value noise created as a byproduct of an otherwise (and always) utilitarian natural mechanism?
Maybe we're value flowers prettying up the landscape.
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