2000Royal Institute of Philosophy SupplementRequires access

Is the esse of intrinsic value percipi?: pleasure, pain and value

T. L. S. Sprigge

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In this paper I shall speak sympathetically of a hedonistic theory of intrinsic value which, ignoring any other such theories, I shall simply call the hedonistic theory of value. How far I am finally committed to it will partly appear at the end.

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In this paper I shall speak sympathetically of a hedonistic theory of intrinsic value which, ignoring any other such theories, I shall simply call the hedonistic theory of value. How far I am finally committed to it will partly appear at the end.

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In this paper I shall speak sympathetically of a hedonistic theory of intrinsic value which, ignoring any other such theories, I shall simply call the hedonistic theory of value. How far I am finally committed to it will partly appear at the end.

Key concepts: Intrinsic value (animal ethics), Pleasure, Value (mathematics), Pain and pleasure, Value theory, Epistemology, Psychology, Philosophy

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