Tag: Instrumental value

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post

Author
Eric Holloway
Date
January 21, 2019

Categorized
Ethics, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
ethics, Human value, Instrumental value, Intrinsic value, money}

The Creative Spark

_{An information theory justification for the intrinsic value of human beings} _{Eric Holloway

January 21, 2019

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Ethics, Philosophy of Mind}

Because creativity is unique to humans and irreducible, all human beings have the ability in principle. The fact that a particular human being’s creativity is not in use or is perhaps unusable at present does not mean that that person does not have the ability. Consequently, all humans have at least latent intrinsic instrumental value. Read More ›