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31 Ariz St. L.J. 355 (1999)
Intrinsic Value and Cultural Preservation

handle is hein.journals/arzjl31 and id is 369 raw text is: INTRINSIC VALUE AND CULTURAL PRESERVATION James W. Nickel* I. INTRODUCTION Sarah Harding explains the respect that is due to culturally valuable artifacts-what she calls cultural heritage-by claiming that such artifacts are intrinsically valuable. She thinks that if we recognize the intrinsic value of things such as songs, stories, remedies, textile designs, sacred objects, drawings, works of art, sculpture, and buildings then we will be better placed to understand our duties in regard to these things and to evaluate competing claims to their possession and use. In these brief comments on Harding's essay I question whether the notion of intrinsic value that she borrows from Joseph Raz will do the work that she thinks it can. I am sympathetic to Harding's project, and to Raz's ideas about intrinsic value, but I find a number of problems in Harding's attempt to use Raz's ideas in this context. II. INTRINSIC VALUE A. The Priority Thesis Harding believes that there is a clear and obvious linkage between having intrinsic value and having high priority, and between having instrumental value and having lower priority. She says: [Ilnstrumental values ... are secondary in nature. * Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Boulder 80309-0232. 1. Sarah Harding, Value, Obligation and Cultural Heritage, 31 ARIZ. ST. L.J. 291, 338 (1999).

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