Does every thing have value?

[Xystus]

so your second thought answered your first thought.

 

[Lifeisbeautiful3]

Unrelated to second thought, and more in thinking with OP’s question: Does evil have value?

 

[zhoudu]

So if you believe that anything has value, then by extension everything has value.

But, does any thing have value? If so, what is that thing? And, how to prove it?

I am unsure of that any thing has value. But, also, I am unsure of that no thing has value.

 

[zhoudu]

I like to take the whole issue to the sub-molecular level. Since everything in the material world is really nothing more than vibrating energy, then that energy can all be traced back to a Source and exists within laws and dynamics of that Source. Some schools of thought have it that all this energy is conscious, and if this is so then God can be said to have interaction with it all at every moment. The value, then, is not necessarily going to be apparent to any one of us in the physical world.

Thank you for your reply!

But, I’m not sure what you mean here. Do you mean that every thing is related to God, and therefore has value?

 

[CelticWarlord]

Do you mean that every thing is related to God, and therefore has value?

That’s the way I’m leaning, yes. However, philosophy is not my strong suit. Even replying to this one was stepping well outside my comfort zone.

 

[Cirdan_XII]

But, I’m not sure what you mean here. Do you mean that every thing is related to God, and therefore has value?

I think there is an interesting strand of though here.

God craeted man in his own image. Therefore man has certain Godly attributes.

Now supposing these attributes including the ability to create. So then things that man makes are in some way related to things that God creates. And this confers on them some value in God’s eyes. To say that in some abstract way they posess some level of life is probably going too far. Maybe we need some attribute here that is less than being alive but more than being a random lump of mineral.

This strand of thought may at first sound like a totally irrelevant tangent that is taking us nowhere. But if we now consider things like relics, so not bones and things but items of clothing or other personal belongings that were used by the saints and that are today conserved and considered to have some holy attributes linking to the person they are associated with. Is this some explanation of that?