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    Food matters to an animal and is therefore valuable to th... — Carmelics
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    Food matters to an animal and is therefore valuable to that animal

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    Alexander argues that anything can have value if it matters to a thing. In this sense, food is valuable to an animal, and moisture is valuable to a plant. However, the “supreme” values—beauty, goodness and truth—can be distinguished from others because they are the only values that are valuable in themselves, for their own sake:

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