God, to be concrete, must enjoy aesthetic values,
the intrinsic values of experiencing.
The intrinsic value of these experiences is minimal.
This beauty, which is enhanced by diversity, contributes greatly to
the intrinsic value of the experience of the observer.
Really knowing the truth is good «in itself,» therefore, although it does not increase
the intrinsic value of an experience of believing something to be true.
Moreover, the basic principle of motivation — in fact, the «glue» of the whole universe — is the «
intrinsic value of experiencing,» «the appeal of life for life, or feeling for feeling, of experience for experience, consciousness for consciousness — and potential enjoyment for actual enjoyment» (BSI 203).
Both intellectual value, or truth, and ethical value, or goodness, are said to presuppose the aesthetic value of experience and to have primarily instrumental value in their ability to enhance
the intrinsic value of experience (AMV 308).
The intrinsic value of each experience can not be separated from the element of freedom through which it realizes itself.
Not exact matches
These companies understand the
intrinsic value in creating an entertaining
experience connected to the promise
of their brand.
There are, he explained, two kinds
of value which people
experience: instrumental and
intrinsic.
It suggests that the whole
of nature is part
of the divine self; it shows how the exploitation
of nature impoverishes the very richness
of divine
experience; it encourages a respect for the
intrinsic value of individual organisms; and, in saying that God loves the world as a self loves a body, it suggests that embodiedness itself is a good to be cherished rather than an evil to be avoided (McFague, 74).
There is
intrinsic value, or richness
of experience, in every living creature, human or nonhuman.
The pervasive, universal
values are not moral and are not mere pleasure, they are aesthetic in the sense
of the
intrinsic harmonies and intensities
of experiencing.
Moral discernment is never the whole
of experience, but the aesthetic
values of experiences are their entire
intrinsic values, what makes them good simply in themselves.
It should be easier to believe that at this point Whitehead was not thinking
of events in nature as having subjectivity or
experience, when we see how many thinkers today affirm the
intrinsic value of the natural world and the interconnectedness
of all things without taking this step.
Rather, in a more Aristotelian mode,
value is something right here in this world
of becoming — it is, as he says, the
intrinsic reality
of an event, which is how that event or entity concretely feels or
experiences.
What is destroyed in the loss
of the ecosystem, therefore, is not only the
intrinsic value of myriads
of individuals making up the forest community but also very important additional contributions
of the forest to the
intrinsic value of human
experiences.
This is the
value of the plant or forest for human beings, a
value that contributes to the
intrinsic value of human
experience.
Intrinsic value resides in the
experiencing of value.
It is more reasonable and in line with our biological understanding
of development to suppose that the capacity for
experience, and therefore
intrinsic value, increases with the developing person from the fertilized ovum onward.
The
intrinsic value of a life is a function
of richness
of experience of that life.
If
intrinsic value is «measured» by richness
of experience, it follows that creatures such as primates and whales have more
intrinsic value than worms and mosquitoes.
It is through symbols, those
of art, poetry and especially religion, that the
intrinsic value of cosmic reality insinuates itself into the conscious
experience of those organisms that we call human beings.
Nearly everyone agrees that a moment
of «human»
experience is richer, more intense, more laden with
intrinsic value than a moment
of «electronic»
experience.
Intrinsic value is the
value of individual occasions
of experience.
(That is the point
of my «variables
of power and
value,» according to which increases in the capacity for
intrinsic value are not possible apart from correlative increases in the capacity for
experiencing and causing suffering.)
New memories could not emerge without the underlying states that allow animals to
experience the
intrinsic values of life.
This is the realm
of mystical
experiences,
of emotional self - transcendence and
of values that seem, to people who can enter such modes, to have an
intrinsic and obvious rightness.
The training also leveraged the Adult Learning Principles [2] to emphasize the qualities that are critical in adult learning tasks, such as the importance
of experience, self - direction,
intrinsic motivation, and immediate
value in learning activities.
In the greater scheme
of things, we need to encompass the
intrinsic value of the volunteering network, in relation to the actual attributed talent,
experience and expertise in terms
of an unmeasurable source
of added
value to the greater good
of our societies.
The
experience of flow nurtures the understanding
of the
intrinsic value of studying something you care about, with the idea that the feeling eventually can be transferred into all other schoolwork.
And «childhood goods» — certain
experiences of childhood, such as purposeless, carefree play — have
intrinsic value, independent
of what kind
of adult the child will become.
We rely on our proprietary Investment Model to arrive at a first approximation
of intrinsic value and then further refine our estimate through our independent research and
experience.
Our
experience with distressed debt is invaluable in this regard, as it allows us to fully understand the
intrinsic value of a security in a negative scenario.
When provide a little information about the
value of rainforest plants as medicine (Seventy percent
of the plants identified as having anti-cancer characteristics by the US National Cancer Institute are found only in the tropical rainforest) the rainforests
intrinsic value becomes evident and the problems associate with logging and slash and burn agriculture change from a mere statistic read in an article into a visible,
experienced, real problem that requires immediate action.
It also means that if you are a skilled negotiator or
experienced at turn key real estate investing (or both), it's entirely possible that you can negotiate a price that is considerably lower than the
intrinsic value of the asset, which is impossible with most other types
of investments.