Author: Catherine Hundleby

TYPES OF VALUATION

INTRINSIC = 
•	Basic to other forms of value
•	Valued in and for itself, its own nature
•	E.g. health, life, happiness, beauty, knowledge, etc.

INSTRUMENTAL =
•	A means to or causally contributes to something intrinsically valuable
•	E.g. exercise, medicine, etc.

INHERENT =
•	The experience or contemplation of it is intrinsically valuable
•	E.g. things that give us pleasure, knowledge, etc.

CONTRIBUTORY
•	A part of some whole that has value
•	E.g.  
1.	one person’s happiness contributes to the happiness of a community
2.	fear can contribute to courage