this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2023
6 points (87.5% liked)

Philosophy

1790 readers
13 users here now

All about Philosophy.

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
6
Does Intrinsic Value Exist? (self.philosophy)
submitted 11 months ago by thepiggz to c/[email protected]
18 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I’m new in this community. Anyone interested in engaging with these sorts of questions? If so, share your thoughts.

My initial inclination is that intrinsic value is an illusion.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] thepiggz 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A good question. Does value exist without an entity to experience and quantify it? Is there value in a universe without humans - assuming such a universe could exist?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How would you define value, objectively?

[–] thepiggz 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Say, existence = value maybe? Or, energy = value?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Then your question becomes "Does intrinsic energy exist?" or "Does intrinsic existence exist?"

[–] thepiggz 1 points 11 months ago

Could be. Interesting tactic. Energy does indeed seem to intrinsically exist. Existence does seem to exist. Scarcity does seem to exist. Even shared feelings of value for things that are hard to make a logical case for them seem to intrinsically exist. Yet, I feel unsatisfied that intrinsic value exists. Maybe I mean something harder to define.