# Metadata Source URL:: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsic_value_(ethics) Topics:: #ethic --- # Intrinsic value (ethics) - Wikipedia ## Highlights > [!quote]+ Updated on 201122_162323 > > In ethics, intrinsic value is a property of anything that is valuable on its own. Intrinsic value is in contrast to instrumental value (also known as extrinsic value), which is a property of anything that derives its value from a relation to another intrinsically valuable thing.[1] Intrinsic value is always something that an object has "in itself" or "for its own sake", and is an intrinsic property. An object with intrinsic value may be regarded as an end, or in Kantian terminology, as an end-in-itself