As a neurosurgeon, Kevin Yoo, MD, treats brain and spinal disorders including trauma, tumors and degenerative conditions. He specializes in surgery for traumatic brain and spine injuries as well as cervical and lumbar artificial disc replacement surgery.
Intrinsic value is an ethical and philosophic property. It is the ethical or philosophic value that an object has in itself or for its own sake, as an intrinsic property. An object with intrinsic value may be regarded as an end or (in Kantian terminology) end-in-itself. Intrinsic multism (from Latin multus many) holds that there are many things with intrinsic value. 2  In other words, this view may hold the instrinsic values of several life stances as intrinsically valuable.
Instrumental and intrinsic value are technical labels for the two poles of an ancient dichotomy. People seem to reason differently about what they ought to do and what they are able to do. When people reason about ends, they apply the criterion intrinsic value. When they reason about means they apply the criterion instrumental value. Few question the existence of these two criteria, but their relative authority is in constant dispute. This article explains the meaning of and disputes about these