Value

The term value has different meanings to different people in various fields of study but what they all have in common is that value is somewhat synonymous with worth. Value can be instrumental; the kind of value we give to inanimate objects like cars, houses and other "material" possesions. Instrumental value in other words is subjective and thus the value of an object differs from person to person.
The value i am interested in is termed Moral Value and like most things, it is very difficult to define or explain. Silliman in his book Sentience and Sensibility sort of defines moral value as; " pro-active valuing by conscious sentient beings". By this Silliman means moral value is exhibited by moral valuers who value others and in so doing have value themselves. Danney Ursery defined moral value as " value consisting of a moral judgement and moral rule" and by this Ursery reinstates the basis of morality; how are actions or judgements fits in with the general public or the very next person.
Similarly i try to look at moral value as any other value with a sense of morality to it; basically an aesthetic, knowledge-based or instrumental form of value alongside a sense of right and wrong. By this i mean that moral value involves judging the morality of what we consider valuable; is it right or wrong to place value on my car over my sister? Is it rationale to place value on the things we do for the reasons we do?
What differentiates moral value from all other values we might come up with is the fact that it is intrinsic; valuers have no control over this form of value like they might over aesthetic or instrumental value. As organisms with intrinsic moral value, we can't be voided of our value even if other values do not deem us valuable. The source of moral value is also a topic of great debate but that's a topic for a later description.