New memories could not emerge without the underlying states that allow animals to experience
the intrinsic values of life.
Rather we ought to respect
the intrinsic value of living beings in and for themselves.
Can they develop theologies of ecology that affirm
the intrinsic value of all life, as do the deep ecologists and most others within environmental philosophy, and that also affirm the care of a compassionate God for the poor and oppressed, as do prophetic biblical traditions?
We can see them first in those who have emphasized
the intrinsic value of life, such as Albert Schweitzer.
The intrinsic value of a life is a function of richness of experience of that life.
They ignore
the intrinsic value of living organisms.
I have a deep respect for
the intrinsic value of every living being because each encounter could ultimately affect the very facets that...
Through passion and purpose, trial and error, and a belief in
the intrinsic value of all living things, the founders prevailed.
Not exact matches
Once it gets up to a certain amount you can have fun with it and buy items
of intrinsic wealth that continue to increase
value over time, such as gold, silver or platinum... Antique jewelry and sterling silver are examples
of intrinsic wealth that also have the added bonus
of contributing something beautiful to your
life.
Buffett's preferred method for evaluating the attractiveness
of investments and businesses is
intrinsic value, which represents the sum
of all
of discounted cash flows that can be taken out
of a business during its remaining
life.
We (Charlie Munger and I) define
intrinsic value as the discounted
value of the cash that can be taken out
of a business during its remaining
life.
Intrinsic value is a present -
value estimate
of the cash that can be taken out
of a business during its remaining
life.
«We define
intrinsic value as the discounted
value of the cash that can be taken out
of a business during its remaining
life.
Death obsession is corroding our society's belief in the
intrinsic value and inherent dignity
of human
life.
For example, deforestation, which usually accompanies development as now practiced, has been more vigorously opposed by those who see
intrinsic value in the whole
of the
living world than by those who are concerned chiefly for peasants and workers.
Bessey powerfully, yet gracefully, compels both genders to rethink the role and
value of women in the Christian faith, and emboldens women to know and
live out that
intrinsic value within the Body
of Christ.
The other is to
value living organisms because
of their
intrinsic value to themselves and to God.
We recognized a second responsibility and that was to respect other
living creatures, not because they might be
of use to us, but because
of their
intrinsic value in themselves to themselves.
These are moments
of intrinsic value, and in too many
lives they are largely isolated occasions, few and far between, connected only by long chains
of life lived instrumentally.
To recognize the
value of living beings in and for themselves, their
intrinsic value, is not to deny their relationality; rather it is to recognize that, amid their dependence on their environments, they are concerned with their own survival and well - being.
The dying deserve the latest scientific palliative interventions, and also the venerable recognition
of the
intrinsic value of every human
life.
It is «the
intrinsic and instrumental
value of every
living organism in its relation to its environment and to God» (Birch 1988, 192).
Our aim will be to allow as many forms
of life as possible to flourish in their
intrinsic and instrumental
value.
In its thematization at the 1983 Vancouver Assembly, the phrase integrity
of creation was clear in general implication but lacking in exact definition.2 In meetings
of the Church and Society Working Committee, the phrase has come to name the
intrinsic value that each and every
living being has in and for itself as a creature loved by God, and the instrumental
value that
living beings can have for one another and for God as instances
of an evolutionary and web - like creation.
There is
intrinsic value, or richness
of experience, in every
living creature, human or nonhuman.
If a
life must be taken, and if instrumental considerations are equalized, it is best to take the
life of the being with the lesser capacity for sentience, and hence the lesser degree
of intrinsic value.
All things considered, it is always best to allow
life to flourish in its diverse expressions, respectful
of the fact that each
living being has
intrinsic as well as instrumental
value.
Still others move from the new awareness
of the
intrinsic value of the world to reflection about how human beings can order their social, political, and economic
lives so as to respect this
value.
In literature and the arts
valuing affects the relation
of the arts to human
life and the critical standards by which the
intrinsic merit
of works
of art are judged.
«The
intrinsic value of human
life,» Bailey goes on, «is a given for all sides in this debate.»
Indeed, the unique and
intrinsic value of human
life merely for being human is under concerted attack across a broad array
of disciplines — bioethics, animal rights, radical environmentalism, and Darwinism.
Babies — even those with dire prospects — are precious human beings whose
lives have
intrinsic dignity and inherent moral
value beyond that
of any nonhuman.
Humanist though he was, Muretus had learned from the death
of Jesus the
intrinsic value of all human
life.
To choose against this form
of life is implicitly to choose against the
intrinsic value of each child with Down syndrome.
But I have never felt the need to justify such behavior by thinking they have less
of a right to
live and blossom (or that they have less
intrinsic value as
living beings) than other
living beings, including myself....
In their interpretation
of the second
of the eight points they write that this entails «the refusal to acknowledge that some
life forms have greater or lesser
intrinsic value than others» (71).
They have an
intrinsic value that consists
of their beauty.7 The
value of life, then, does not consist in its precariousness, but in the fact that it is an instance
of intensely ordered novelty,
of harmonized contrast, that is,
of beauty.
If every
living creature is a subject, then each has
intrinsic value to itself and to God, in addition to any instrumental
value each may have in the scheme
of things.
Their action suggests that, despite their recognition
of elephants as pests, they also recognized that elephants had
intrinsic value and had a right to
live.
We must take care to explain the medical and scientific fact that embryos and fetuses are human beings and the necessity
of recognizing the
intrinsic value of all human
life.
If human
life in its
intrinsic value is
of value to God, it follows that wherever there is
intrinsic value there is
value to God.
The central principle
of a biocentric ethic is that we deal with
living organisms appropriately when we rightly balance their
intrinsic value and their instrumental worth.
When we try to balance
intrinsic value and instrumental
value we need an ethic
of intrinsic value that goes beyond Albert Schweitzer's «reverence for
life» and other «egalitarian» ethics which rate all
life of equal
value.
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).
every human
life has an
intrinsic and absolute
value through being created by God, in the image
of God;
The refusal to recognize the
intrinsic value of an unborn child's
life amounts to zealotry.
«The Good Egg» draws a link between the viability
of the egg before conception and the
intrinsic value of the embryo: «If, as some ethicists argue, nascent
life must be protected, how do we assess the degree
of moral entitlement due a nascent entity that fails to pass nature's own muster perhaps 80 percent
of the time?»
None
of this belittles her worth to history or her
intrinsic value as a
living being, it merely gives perspective which I believe many do not consider.
Warren Buffett wrote to Berkshire shareholders in 1994: «
Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted
value of the cash that can be taken out
of a business during its remaining
life.»
Graham
of course gave the
value investing community concepts like margin
of safety,
intrinsic value and the idea
of equity ownership representing a stake in a real
live business.