Comments on: Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Value

By: Richard X. Thripp

Richard X. Thripp — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:37:54 +0000

Yes, but a major like liberal arts, communications, creative writing, or even English doesn’t have much value. I see English teachers making dumb mistakes all the time, such as using “less” instead of “fewer” and not using apostrophes correctly.

By: Maria

Maria — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:10:54 +0000

I don’t agree that a college education has NO intrinsic value. In the end, unless you’re unfortunate enough to contract Alzheimer’s disease, the one thing that cannot be taken from you is all the things you’ve learned—both in a formal environment such as college and informally through your own curiosity and from what life throws at you to teach you what you need to learn. The extrinsic value only comes into play when it comes to the opportunities available once achieving your degree.

By: Richard X. Thripp

Richard X. Thripp — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:50:58 +0000

Yeah, it’s pretty much a waste of time if you want to learn something seriously. Most college courses are very cursory, and you skip much of what’s in the textbook. I’m in college now mainly for the scholarships and socializing.

By: Richard X. Thripp

Richard X. Thripp — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:49:27 +0000

Thanks for the interesting insight.

By: Frindle

Frindle — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:19:17 +0000

I completely agree with you on the value of college education (or university, as it’s called here in Australia). It’s a pointless waste of time — not a lot of true learning - just regurgitation - slapping together footnotes and quotes that nobody would read if they weren’t paid to do it - no passion. It’s become a business, taking what should be an individual experience and turning it into a product, homogeneous and bland. If it weren’t for the broad library and the fact that while I’m a full-time student I have a lot of spare time to devote to my true passion: creating music. Like Twain, I never let my education get in the way of my learning - It seems like you think similar thoughts.

If I could just spend 4 years poking around at the books in the library of my Uni, without any pressure to hand up assignments, I believe I would learn ENORMOUSLY BETTER than I do now, and on a much wider range of subjects.

An interesting read, thank you

By: shakti

shakti — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:21:57 +0000

Thanks for the help. Many philosophers take intrinsic value to be crucial to a variety of moral judgments. For example, according to a fundamental form of consequentialism, whether an action is morally right or wrong has exclusively to do with whether its consequences are intrinsically better than those of any other action one can perform under the circumstances.

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By: Richard X. Thripp

Richard X. Thripp — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:22:09 +0000

Thanks I suppose.

By: bazooka85

bazooka85 — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:28:58 +0000

ur a beast richard

By: Digital Sharecropping

Digital Sharecropping — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:57:26 +0000

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