What does it mean to say that something is instrumentally valuable? Is anything valuable, but not (only) instrumentally valuable? Is knowledge ever non-instrumentally valuable?
For something to be instrumentally valuable, it “accrues to something in virtue of some further valuable purpose that it serves”. The concept of instrumental value is one which is present in a wide variety of things, such as: logic, for teaching one how to formulate a valid argument; the knowledge of how to read a map, allowing one to find where they are going; a pen, enabling one to write. In each of these examples, the value shown explicitly comes from what the subject, knowledge or object allows one to achieve. Even so, this is not the only source of value. Value
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Some, such as Toby Syoboda, claim that “human beings lack any evidence for the position that non-human entities have intrinsic value”. Svoboda proposes that we cannot assign intrinsic value, as in another world that thing may not possess any value at all; however, I propose that things can have intrinsic value on the grounds that they are valuable with no regard to their function in human society, meaning that value does not come from being instrumental. I believe intrinsic value is something can exist with and without instrumental value; the most apparent example of something with both forms of value is friends; whilst friends do have instrumental value by giving us connections and doing us favours, they also have value in-themselves. Of course, I expect a friend to help me if they can, but if they cannot I value them no less, even though their instrumental value would be less significant to me. Moreover, there are also instances where things have had instrumental value, that has been lost or taken away leaving purely intrinsic value. A prime example of this is Marilyn Monroe’s “Happy Birthday, Mr. President Dress”. This year, the dress sold at auction for $4.8 million, so that it can be displayed in Ripley’s Believe it or Not Museum. Normally, an expensive dress is purchased as it is well fitted, or made of a material which will last a long time but ultimately to make the person wearing it more attractive. However, in this instance, one of histories most expensive dresses is merely sitting in a display. Whilst the dress could have this instrumental value, the intrinsic value overwhelms it to the extent that its instrumental purpose becomes redundant. On the other hand, we can also have value completely exclusive of instrumental value. For instance, Van Gogh’s painting, The Starry Night, to most people, holds absolutely no
The cup, for example, can be used as a pencil holder, or just a normal cup full of water. Just like Crockett explains, in his essay, how his mug is always filled with coffee and how it’s taken over his life. Without coffee in his mug there isn’t a value to his cup. Campbell also brings value to herself as well as others every time she delivers manure. She’s learned how manure helps the crops grow. By helping the crops grow bigger and better she adds value to the product. Campbell provides the manure that brings value to the crops. Bringing value to the crops to make them better for our
But what is the real value of a copy? Is the statue on Riverside Drive worth more than the other representations that are exhibited in the Wallach Gallery? What brings the rotational photography to the initial work of art? Is something lost with the evolution of reproductive imagery, like the emotion of the instant, the spontaneity of the artist’s hand - the 'aura' of the original (as Walter Benjamin called it)?
He clarifies his interpretation of aesthetic value, rejecting the traditionally narrow notions regarding beauty and composition, and expands his view to include insights and emotions expressed through the medium. Explaining that he views overall value as an all-things-considered judgement, he asserts the ethicist’s duty to contrast the aesthetic with the ethical and determine the extent to which one outweighs the other. Gaut calls on readers to defy the popular paradigm equating beauty with goodness and ugly with evil, allowing for great, yet flawed pieces of
enables human beings to put principle ahead of self and to rise above self-interest and immediate
and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right
period were not only concerned with the beauty of art, but also the monetary value of it,
In existential thought it is often questioned who decides what is right and what is wrong. Our everyday beliefs based on the assumption that not everything we are told may be true. This questioning has given light to the subjective perspective. This means that there is a lack of a singular view that is entirely devoid of predetermined values. These predetermined values are instilled upon society by various sources such as family to the media. On a societal level this has given rise to the philosophy of social hype. The idea of hype lies in society as the valuation of something purely off someone or some group of people valuing it. Hype has become one of the main driving forces behind what society considers to be good art and how successful artists can become while being the main component that leads to a wide spread belief, followed by its integration into subjective views. Its presence in the art world propagates trends, fads, and limits what we find to be good art. Our subjective outlook on art is powered by society’s feedback upon itself. The art world, high and low, is exploited by this social construction. Even when objective critique is the goal subjective remnants can still seep through and influence an opinion. Subjective thought in the art world has been self perpetuated through regulated museums, idolization of the author, and general social construction because of hype.
Before determining the validity of instrumentalism, I think we must look at history to help us determine science's overall purpose. I believe that science precipitates from an inner curiosity how about how the world works. I believe that after looking into the past, we can deduce that science has had a dual function: to explain observable or unobservable phenomenon and to help predict the outcome of our actions. For example, with the gravitational theory, at first we attempted to explain the motion of falling objects and then assuming that this force that we call "gravity" would stay relatively static, we could predict the outcome of other falling objects. Instrumentalist is a noble theory, but I don't believe it to be historically consistent with the aims of science as it was created.
Everything has a value if you give it one and ultimately depends what you value and what you belief. Suelo learned to accept who he was and got past his homosexuality and choose not to make that important rather focus on his life like Jesus did and followed his heart. His beliefs and values pushed him to become the person who he is today the man who quit money. Although he lost all the materialistic things and more, in his eyes he never lost not even a dime. He gained his unlimited happiness he gained much more then what we see and lost much more then we think all because we do not see through his eyes but through our own.
Music has shaped the lives of people throughout history. Even in its earliest forms, music has included use of instruments. One of the oldest musical instruments known is a variation of the flute; the original flute is thought to date back nearly 67,000 years ago. Tonight we are going to move throughout the eras with a history of instrumental music. This concert will begin with the Renaissance Era and continue through time until we have reached modern instrumental music.
Just as other works that reflect art, pieces in the category of fine arts serve the important message of passing certain messages or portraying a special feeling towards a particular person, function or activity. At times due to the nature of a particular work, it can become so valuable that its viewers cannot place a price on it. It is not the nature or texture of an art that qualifies it, but the appreciation by those who look at it (Lewis & Lewis, 2008).
If I were to construct a museum of my most cherished possessions .The museum door would be made of all the parts from the all the computers that I have made and destroyed. The flooring of my museum would be the plane tickets to different places and the walls would be made of cans of different energy drinks that I have had in my lifetime. The most prized possessions of my life have to be. The rims off my first car, The first computer that I made with my own money , The first stamp that I got in my passport to travel overseas.by myself , and the first email got confirming that I was sponsored.
According to Buffett, intrinsic value is an all-important concept that offers the only logical approach to evaluating the relative attractiveness of investments and businesses. Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business during its remaining life.
Value can mean different things to different people; it is measured by a product’s performance and by the elements it is made up of which customers are prepared to pay for. (Hanson et al, 2008)
...tity is, it is apart of the Earth’s community of life. The acknowledgment of its been good is Intrinsically valuable. This means that it is worthy of being preserved because it contributes something to the ecosystem.