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    Value judgments can be assessed instrumentally, in terms ... — Carmelics
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    Value judgments can be assessed instrumentally, in terms of how well they perform their function of constituting new valuings that solve the individual's predicament

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    • 1.The function of value judgments is to constitute new valuings
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    • 2.These new valuings solve the individual's predicament
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    • 3.Things can be assessed in terms of how well they perform their function
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    • 1.Value judgments possess intrinsic normative authority that cannot be reduced to their functional efficacy in resolving psychological predicaments.
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    • 2.Kant's categorical imperative demonstrates that moral judgments derive validity from rational universalizability, not from their problem-solving consequences.
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    • 3.An instrumental assessment of value judgments collapses the distinction between what resolves a predicament and what is genuinely right or good.
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    • 1.G.E. Moore's open question argument establishes that defining goodness by any natural property, including functional success, commits the naturalistic fallacy.
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    • 2.If 'solving the individual's predicament' fully captured the meaning of a correct value judgment, asking 'but is it truly good?' would be unintelligible, yet it manifestly is not.
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    Thus, value judgments or appraisals result in new valuings. This fact has two implications, one for the nature of valuing, the other for the assessment of value judgments. First, when valuings change in response to value judgments, they become desires, interests, or tastes. Second, because the function of value judgments is to constitute new valuings that solve the individual’s predicament, they can be assessed instrumentally, in terms of how well they perform that function.
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