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From Heirlooms to Nature:

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From Heirlooms to Nature:

[Thesis]

Tenen, Levi

An Account of Extrinsic Final Value

Baron, Marcia

Indiana University

2020

144

Ph.D.

Indiana University

2020

Heritage sites, religious relics, family heirlooms, and natural entities are all highly valued. But what sorts of value do they have? Arguably, they do not have intrinsic value, or a value borne solely by their internal features. A family heirloom, for instance, has value because of its relation to a loved one. On a standard view, any object that lacks intrinsic value cannot be valuable for its own sake. Yet I argue against this. The foregoing can be valuable for their own sakes even if they do not have value intrinsically. They can have "extrinsic final value." My dissertation responds to a pressing objection to this idea by providing an account that shows precisely how entities can have this sort of value. To do so, I refine a particular methodology in Value Theory, according to which one can show that an object is valuable for its own sake by showing that there is a reason to value it in that way. I first explain what I mean when I talk about there being a "reason" to value entities. Then I provide an account of what it is to value something for its own sake. Using the above-mentioned methodology, I then sketch how there can be a reason to value an heirloom for its own sake on account of its relation to a loved one. Adapting my account, I show why there are reasons to value natural entities for their own sakes and illustrate various practical upshots of this view.

Extrinsic final value

Heirlooms

Intrinsic value

Nature

Reasons to value

Value theory

Baron, Marcia

Tenen, Levi

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[Thesis]

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