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    All natural things, events, and states of affairs possess intrinsic value

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    • 1.Naturalness is itself a property that confers intrinsic value
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    • 2.All natural things, events, and states of affairs possess the property of naturalness
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    • 1.Intrinsic value requires a valuing subject or capacity for welfare; value cannot be mind-independently instantiated in non-sentient nature.
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    • 2.Natural things, events, and states of affairs include smallpox, earthquakes, and cancer, which lack any plausible welfare-grounding for intrinsic value.
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    • 1.The property of 'naturalness' cannot confer value without smuggling in a normative premise, committing the naturalistic fallacy Moore identified.
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    • 2.Deriving intrinsic value from the descriptive fact of being natural illicitly moves from an 'is' to an 'ought', violating Hume's guillotine.
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    Individual natural entities (whether sentient or not, living or not), Andrew Brennan (1984, 2014) argues, are not designed by anyone to fulfill any purpose and therefore lack “intrinsic function” (i.e., the function of a thing that constitutes part of its essence or identity conditions). This, he proposes, is a reason for thinking that individual natural entities should not be treated as mere instruments, and thus a reason for assigning them intrinsic value. Furthermore, he argues that the same
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