By Schubert Ogden
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It is false to say, as Hartshorne does, that "only persons --– or, at least, sentient individuals -– have intrinsic value" ("The Formal Validity and Real Significance of the Ontological Argument": 235 f.).
Not only persons or sentient individuals, but.alsq anything else that is comparably concrete has intrinsic (as well as :~t;;fi!:l4t constitutive) value. Why?
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Becaus~ th~ Because the line between intrinsic (as well as l:ASfrUmCfttaJ..;constitutive) and (merely) i~U"m~J:iKfvalue constitutive value lies between all concretes, ~the on the one side, and all
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abstracts, on the other.
12 October 1996