(January 10, 2014 at 9:59 pm)rasetsu Wrote:(January 10, 2014 at 9:28 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: I agree. Sartre is brilliant and has been a major influence on me. As I see it there is an ontological difference between mental properties and physical ones. Value can be an essential property of mental things but not of physical things. The only reason we can confer value on physical things is by reference to some irreducible nonphysical source.
Why do irreducible nonphysical sources have the capacity to serve as foundation of value if physical sources do not? What is it about these hypothetical sources that makes them capable of providing foundation for intrinsic value? How does intrinsic value work? Is it like ectoplasm that's left behind by the mental? What's the operational concept here? Are we just natural intrinsic value bestowers?
I will answer your question after you explain what it is about physical sources that makes them capable of supporting extension in time/space and fundamental forces.