Virtual Intrinsic Value and the Principle of Organic Unities
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Michael Zimmerman, Professor and Philosophy Pre-Law Concentration Advisor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: This paper argues that Moore's principle of organic unities is false. Advocates of the principle have failed to take note of the distinction between actual intrinsic value and virtual intrinsic value. Purported cases of organic unities, where the actual intrinsic value of a part of a whole is allegedly defeated by the actual intrinsic value of the whole itself, are more plausibly seen as cases where the part in question has no actual intrinsic value but instead a plurality of merely virtual intrinsic values.
Virtual Intrinsic Value and the Principle of Organic Unities
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- Publication
- Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 59(3), 653-666
- Language: English
- Date: 1999
- Keywords
- principle of organic unities, intrinsic value, virtual intrinsic value, organic unities