When Theias shot an arrow into the tree â or when a boar used its tusks to rend the tree's bark â Adonis was born from the tree. This myth fits both Adonis' nature as a vegetation god and his origins from the hot foreign desert lands where the myrrh tree grew.
intrinsic. adj. 1. of or relating to the essential nature of a thing; inherent. 2. (Anatomy) anatomy situated within or peculiar to a part: intrinsic muscles. [C15: from Late Latin intrinsecus from Latin, inwardly, from intrÄ within + secus alongside; related to sequÄ« to follow].
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. It is contrasted with instrumental value (or extrinsic value), the value of which depends on how much it generates intrinsic value. For an eudaemonist, happiness (human flourishing) has intrinsic value, while having a family may not have intrinsic value, yet be instrumental, since it generates happiness.