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Inherent and Instrumental Values

Excursions in Value Inquiry

Edited by G. John M. Abbarno

The essays in this book range broadly over different aspects of value theory and include contributions by Nicholas Rescher, Frances Kamm, Barry Smith, and Jan Narveson. Portions examine the theoretical foundations of values and valuation exploring the rational groundwork for judgments. Other aspects, appealing to value distinctions of inherent, intrinsic, and instrumental, drawn most notably by C. I. Lewis, bring to light matters of aesthetic, social political, ethical, and ontological issues. Throughout Inherent and Instrumental Values, the authors address questions assessing the intrinsic worth of utility of actions and whether manual or professional labor can hold an equal value rating and the implications of this assessment. In other portions of the anthology, authors explore the extent to which such value categories above, help clarify and assess moral issues we encounter in everyday life. Among some analyzed in this book are racism and affirmative action, abortion, euthanasia, homelessness, care, and friendship. The theme of the nature of value and the role of valuation we encounter in the days of our life, provide a basis for examining other aspects of axiology that lie beyond the scope of this work.

University Press of America

Pages: 327 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-0-7618-6494-3 • Paperback • December 2014 • $51.99 • (£40.00)

978-0-7618-6495-0 • eBook • December 2014 • $49.00 • (£38.00)

Subjects: Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy / Essays, Philosophy / Social, Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations, Social Science / Essays

Inherent and Instrumental Values

Excursions in Value Inquiry

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The essays in this book range broadly over different aspects of value theory and include contributions by Nicholas Rescher, Frances Kamm, Barry Smith, and Jan Narveson. Portions examine the theoretical foundations of values and valuation exploring the rational groundwork for judgments. Other aspects, appealing to value distinctions of inherent, intrinsic, and instrumental, drawn most notably by C. I. Lewis, bring to light matters of aesthetic, social political, ethical, and ontological issues. Throughout Inherent and Instrumental Values, the authors address questions assessing the intrinsic worth of utility of actions and whether manual or professional labor can hold an equal value rating and the implications of this assessment. In other portions of the anthology, authors explore the extent to which such value categories above, help clarify and assess moral issues we encounter in everyday life. Among some analyzed in this book are racism and affirmative action, abortion, euthanasia, homelessness, care, and friendship. The theme of the nature of value and the role of valuation we encounter in the days of our life, provide a basis for examining other aspects of axiology that lie beyond the scope of this work.

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University Press of America

Pages: 327 • Trim: 6 x 9

978-0-7618-6494-3 • Paperback • December 2014 • $51.99 • (£40.00)

978-0-7618-6495-0 • eBook • December 2014 • $49.00 • (£38.00)

Subjects: Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy / Essays, Philosophy / Social, Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations, Social Science / Essays

Author

G. John M. Abbarno is a past president of both the American Society for Value Inquiry and the International Society for Value Inquiry and the current president of the Conference on Philosophical Societies of the American Philosophical Association. He serves as regional coordinator for the Center for Research in Values and Philosophy. Abbarno has published numerous articles on ethical issues and lectured extensively on value theory at universities in China.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I: The Foundations of Value Knowledge

The Rational Validation of Values
Nicholas Rescher
Values in Contexts: An Ontological Theory
Barry Smith
Intrinsic Values and Universal Reasons for Action
B. C. Postow
On the Ontology of Inherent Value
Robert Halliday
Is There an Inherent Moral Value in the
Second-Person Relationship?
Piotr Boltuc
Kolnai and the Interesting
Gerald J. Erion
Hannah Arendt on Thinking and Its Relation to Evil
Sarah Elizabeth Worth
The Value of Moral Perception
Margaret G. Holland
Rationality and the Moral Significance of Emotions
Arleen L. F. Salles

Part II: The Social and Political Dimensions of Value

Society and the Inherent/Instrumental Value Distinction
Jan Narveson
Racism, Instrumental Value, and Black Reparations
George Schedler
Discrimination and Affirmative Action
Jesse Taylor
The Idea of Value in Economic Theory:
From Political Economy to Economics
David E. Schrader
Dworkin and Free Speech: Means or End?
Jonelle M. DePetro
Is Tolerance Indispensable for Liberalism?
Shyli Karin-Frank

Part III: Values in Moral Virtues and Moral Rules

What Is So Good about Friendship?
James O. Grunebaum
Instrumental and Inherent Value in the Enchiridion of Epictetus
Patricia Anne Murphy
On the Utilitarian Criterion of Right Action
Joel Thomas Tierno
Transformative Value: Intrinsic or Instrumental?
John M. Mizzoni

Part IV: Cross Currents of Human Values in Society

Science as Human Value
Thomas Platt
Shortcomings in Applying Medical-Model
Thinking to Social Problems
George T. Hole
Pulp Trumps Gump: The Inherent Moral Visions of Pulp Fiction and Forrest Gump
Sander H. Lee
The Utility of Intrinsic Value
Joram Graf Haber
Ambiguity of Care in a Technological Society
Charles J. Sabatino
Moral Space and Values
G. John M. Abbarno
Against the Distinction of Inherent and Instrumental Values: A Zen Contribution
Robert Ginsberg

Part V: Value Decisions at the End of Life
The Values of Life and Its Inviolability
F. M. Kamm
The Coptown Case: Inviolable Status and Desert
Guyora Binder
Euthanasia and the Plasticity of Intrinsic Value
Michael F. Patton Jr.
Inherency, Instrumentality, and Ambiguity: Values in Medical Ethics
Paul R. Johnson

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Excursions in Value Inquiry

Edited by G. John M. Abbarno

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