In the Science of Ethics this is known as: The Principle of Value-Generation. Creating value when you encounter another individual entails going in the direction of Intrinsic value. [size=89][It means heading in the Intrinsic direction of the formula. This requires an explanation, as follows:][/size]
Value science, is the metalanguage for Ethics. The founder of this science is the philosophical genius, Robert S. Hartman. He discovered (not invented) the Dimensions of Value. The three most-basic ones, S, E, and I,. When applied to mental affects, give us:
S: Conception
E: Perception
I: Experience.
Think of a sunset, as an illustration. you may conceive of a sunset in your imagination. It’s a mere image. Or you can enumerate the properties, round, yellow-orange, bright, in the West, seeming to sink below the horizon, etc., as what the senses perceive.
But if you ever viewed a sunset on an island off the East Coast of the U.S.A., (as I once did in a kind of ceremonial event with a group of people together, as it slowly sunk out of sight, noted its warm glow, and its enormous size) the experience would be unforgettable.
If asked to describe it, one could go on-and-on about it.
The perceptual features comprise a countable list, but the experiential properties far outnumber them, and are even nondenumerable (uncountable). For the experience is so rich in properties. The more-appropriate number to assign to this is aleph-sub-one: perhaps the power of the continuum. {It is the number of points in a line segment.} In an experience the valuer forms a continuum with what is being valued.
S, E, and I are symbols abbreviating Systemic-value, Extrinsic-value, and Intrinsic-value. The S-values are the Intellectual values; the E-values are the bodily, worldly, every-day, pragmatic, socio-economic values; and the I-values ire inspiration, enthusiasm, integrity, empathy, morality, beauty, truth, liberty and honesty, etc., etc.
Universals are S; Particulars are E; Singulars (uniquenesses) are I.
S: Essence; E: Existence: I: Reality. They are degrees of substance.
. They form a hierarchy with regard to how valuable they are, as values, with I-values being worth the most; E-values far less; and S-values the least …among these three basic values. The formula for it is:
I > E > S. When one I-values an individual, one has entered the field of Ethics. That is how “Ethics” is defined in the system.
Now you have a better understanding of S, E, and I than you might have had before. [For more details, see the first few pages of BASIC ETHICS, which is the third paper cited below. Just click on the link to read it, for an enjoyable experience. It will ‘connect the dots’.]
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