striving-value

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Editorial synthesis · provisional

Definition

Striving-value is RB3’s designation for the good already present in a being whose continuation can go better or worse, encountered rather than granted by a human moral gatekeeper. The proposal preserves the author’s regime-based animal ethics and its distinction from criterial admission. It does not infer reflective desire, human personhood or harmonious reciprocity from the existence of striving.

Explanation

The account converges with Korsgaard on animal good while expressly parting over its source. The author locates value in striving before deliberative recognition, rather than presenting it as a human legislative gift. The proposed entry records that philosophical disagreement without treating it as a newly settled result about every theory of standing.

The practical ethical object is what regimes do to that viability. The animal becomes a center whose trajectory can be systematically foreclosed, not merely a candidate for admission through a human certificate. This does not require affection, anthropomorphic description or the claim that every living being is a human-like person.

Shared vulnerability includes consumption, parasitism and material return. The book explicitly refuses to justify industrial extraction merely because predation occurs in nature. Its criterion consequently does not promise reciprocal harmony or license a regime that converts another’s becoming into unilateral fuel under the cover of natural necessity.

Scope and attribution

Encountered good in striving differs from a human grant, proven reflective desire or justification of industrial predation.

AB — The Actual Book

Source-verified occurrence; see the printed-page references below.

Occurrence locators: 179, 180, 185.

RB3 — The Real Book, Volume III: Murmurations

The developed account belongs to RB3 in the cited local scope, with antecedents and qualifications retained.

Occurrence locators: 238, 239, 240.