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" By saying that a thing is intrinsically good it means that it would be a good thing that the thing in question should exist, even if it existed quite alone, without any further accompaniments or effects whatever. "
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society for the Systematic Study of Philosophy - Page 170
by Aristotelian Society (Great Britain) - 1922
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Realism: A Study in Art and Thought

Arthur Sydney McDowall - Realism - 1918 - 318 pages
...the meaning of intrinsic value for Mr. Moore. This he tells us very explicitly in his later book. ' By saying that a thing is intrinsically good it means...without any further accompaniments or effects whatever.' 1 Value does not depend on the spectator. ' It is not the same thing as to say that any being or set...
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Moral Philosophy Of Moore

Robert Peter Sylvester - Philosophy - 2009 - 268 pages
...that a thing or event that has intrinsic value is something of which it can be said that it ought to exist "even if it existed quite alone, without any further accompaniments or effects whatsoever."' The fact that a thing has intrinsic value, and therefore ought to exist, as the sentence...
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Viable Values: A Study of Life as the Root and Reward of Morality

Tara Smith - Philosophy - 2000 - 220 pages
...on the intrinsic nature of the thing in question." "Saying that a thing is intrinsically good . . . means that it would be a good thing that the thing...without any further accompaniments or effects whatever." WD Ross held that the intrinsically good is "that which is good apart from any of the results it produces."...
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G. E. Moore: Essays in Retrospect, Volume 3

Alice Ambrose, Morris Lazerowitz - Philosophy - 2002 - 384 pages
...isolated existence of each* (Principia § 112). 'By saying that a thing is intrinsically good the theory means that it would be a good thing that the thing...accompaniments or effects whatever' (Ethics p. 65): of the intrinsically bad and the intrinsically indifferent a corresponding account is given. Again,...
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Recent Work on Intrinsic Value

Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen, Michael J. Zimmerman - Philosophy - 2005 - 476 pages
...theory, utilitarianism, that Moore is investigating and which he endorses at least in this respect] means that it would be a good thing that the thing...without any further accompaniments or effects whatever. 29 But whether or not Moore would accept the existence of a property of generic goodness, we should...
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