The source of value

6 years 9 months ago - 6 years 9 months ago #640 by Dorina Grossu
https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3164347
https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3164347/Korsgaard_AristotleKantValue.pdf?sequence=5

"The attraction of subjectivist views is that they acknowledge the connection of the good to human interests and desires. Most things that are good are good because of the interest human beings have in them, an interest that can be explained in terms of the physiological and psychological constitutions of human beings and the other conditions of human life.
In Kantian language, we may say that just as means are "conditioned" goods because their value depends on the ends to which they are means, most of our ends are conditioned goods because their value depends on the conditions of human existence, and the needs and desires to which those conditions give rise. Objectivism reverses this relation between goodness and human interest. Instead of saying that what we are interested in is therefore
good, the objectivist says that the goodness is in the object, and we ought therefore to be interested in it. This divorce of goodness from natural interest can make it seem too accidental that we are able to care about the things that are intrinsically good. "

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