By Noah M. Lemos
This booklet addresses a few easy questions on intrinsic worth: what's it? What has it? What justifies our ideals approximately it? the writer defends the life of a plurality of intrinsic items, the thesis of natural unities, the view that a few items are ''higher'' than others, and the view that intrinsic worth could be explicated when it comes to ''fitting'' emotional attitudes. the ultimate 3 chapters discover the justification of our ideals approximately intrinsic worth, together with coherence theories and the concept that a few worth ideals are warranted at the foundation of emotional adventure. Professor Lemos additionally contends that a few price ideals take pleasure in ''modest'' a priori justification.
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We might, for example, think of an event or an action that occurs as a state of affairs that obtains. Thus, the occurrence of an event such as something's falling, and the occurrence of an action such as someone's walking, might both be understood in terms of the obtaining of certain states of affairs. Trying to decide whether events are abstract objects or concrete particulars would take us too far afield. Instead, let me say simply that I have no doubt that some actions, events, and lives are intrinsically good, and if it is reasonable for us to believe that such things are concrete, particular things, then it is reasonable for us to believe that some concrete particulars are intrinsically good and that others are intrinsically bad.
The view that there are properties that are not exemplified is sometimes taken to be a mark of extreme realism. I also assume that properties can be the objects of certain intentional attitudes, that they can be conceived, considered, and attributed. I assume that one can, for example, consider and attribute the property of being a mermaid, even if nothing has that property. For example, a drunken sailor with poor vision at dusk might attribute to a sea-weed-draped manatee the property of being a mermaid.
137. 20 concepts in Chapter 7 in connection with the "distinctiveness" of intrinsic value. "2 According to this definition, we must say that there are no properties that cannot be exemplified. Thus, although there is a property of being round and a property of being square, there is no property of being a round square. I make the following metaphysical assumptions about properties. I assume that there are properties that exist and are exemplified, and that there are properties that exist but are not exemplified.