What If All Value Were Conferred?. (13th October 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Soto, Carlos
• Is Part Of: Thought. Volume 6:Number 4(2017:Dec.)
• Page Start: 217
• Page End: 221
• Publication Date: 2017-10-13
• Subjects: value -- wrongness -- rational nature -- choice -- Kant; Philosophy -- Periodicals; Logic -- Periodicals; Knowledge, Theory of -- Periodicals; 105
• DOI: 10.1002/tht3.260
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2161-2234

Abstract

Abstract : I argue that the claim that all value is conferred is incompatible with the view that the capacity to set ends is unconditionally valuable. While this objection has been made, I offer a rebuttal and then a counterexample to the rebuttal. I also argue that, if all value were conferred, then the Kantian notion that moral wrongness consists in a practical contradiction is undermined.