Monday, July 2, 2018

Reflective-Value and Utility

Corresponding to the Personal-Value component of Labor-Value, previously discussed, is a potential component of Use-Value that can be called Reflective-Value.  The latter is the enjoyment derived from the use of a product of one's own making, including the mere contemplation of it, e. g. that of the deity of Genesis 1 at the end of the passage.  Likewise, Reflective-Utility could be a factor in a Utilitarian calculus.  However, any commitment of Utilitarianism to Consequentialism, e. g. Mill's, precludes the possibilty of that contribution.  For, as Mill insists, the process by which some object of experience is produced is irrelevant to its Utility.  Thus, so, too, is that one is oneself the agent of that process.

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