Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Francesco Orsi, Crawford L. Elder and Immanuel Kant
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / a. Nature of value
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Kant focuses exclusively on human values, and neglects cultural and personal values [Kekes on Kant]
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Value-maker concepts (such as courageous or elegant) simultaneously describe and evaluate [Orsi]
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The '-able' concepts (like enviable) say this thing deserves a particular response [Orsi]
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Final value is favoured for its own sake, and personal value for someone's sake [Orsi]
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Things are only valuable if something makes it valuable, and we can ask for the reason [Orsi]
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A complex value is not just the sum of the values of the parts [Orsi]
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Trichotomy Thesis: comparable values must be better, worse or the same [Orsi]
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The Fitting Attitude view says values are fitting or reasonable, and values are just byproducts [Orsi]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / b. Fact and value
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We cannot derive moral laws from experience, as it is the mother of illusion [Kant]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / c. Objective value
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Values from reasons has the 'wrong kind of reason' problem - admiration arising from fear [Orsi]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / d. Subjective value
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Our rational choices confer value, arising from the sense that we ourselves are important [Kant, by Korsgaard]
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Values are created by human choices, and are not some intrinsic quality, out there [Kant, by Berlin]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value
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A thing may have final value, which is still derived from other values, or from relations [Orsi]
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Kant may rate two things as finally valuable: having a good will, and deserving happiness [Orsi on Kant]
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An autonomous agent has dignity [Würde], which has absolute worth [Kant, by Pinkard]
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The good will is unconditionally good, because it is the only possible source of value [Kant, by Korsgaard]
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Good or evil cannot be a thing, but only a maxim of action, making the person good or evil [Kant]
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What is contemplated must have a higher value than contemplation [Kant, by Korsgaard]
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Only a good will can give man's being, and hence the world, a final purpose [Kant]
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The love of man is required in order to present the world as a beautiful and perfect moral whole [Kant]
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All morality directs the will to love of others' ends, and respect for others' rights [Kant]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / a. Normativity
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We only understand what exists, and can find no sign of what ought to be in nature [Kant]
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The Buck-Passing view of normative values says other properties are reasons for the value [Orsi]
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Values can be normative in the Fitting Attitude account, where 'good' means fitting favouring [Orsi]
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Truths about value entail normative truths about actions or attitudes [Orsi]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / f. Altruism
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Reverence is awareness of a value which demolishes my self-love [Kant]
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We may claim noble motives, but we cannot penetrate our secret impulses [Kant]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love
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The duty of love is to makes the ends of others one's own [Kant]
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