Value, emerging as a deeper life in the wholeness of the world, turns out to be a fundamental aspect of nature itself.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Value is an objective feature of nature; some parts have more life and are inherently more valuable than others, contradicting the value-free view of science.claim0.850
  Radical extension of the living-structure thesis into normative territory.
• Value is a definite and fundamental part of the universe, and of the scheme of things.claim0.849
  New cosmological assumption #5: value is inherent in the structure of space.
• Within the framework of wholeness, value is an objective phenomenon which arises inevitably from the degree to which unfolding has been truthful—guided by the fifteen structure-preserving transformations.claim0.834
  A new view of ethics and aesthetics where goodness is equated to smooth unfolding from existing wholeness.
• If self or I is woken up whenever living structure appears in matter, what we think of as value may then be described as the protection, preservation, nourishment, of the precious self of the universe.claim0.818
  New assumption #8: value as protection of the universal self.
• The rewarding and life-enhancing nature of work comes into focus when the thing made has life, and the makers begin to change dramatically.claim0.817
• The wholesomeness and integrity of a person's existence is directly dependent on the extent to which that person can sustain an inner relatedness with the world, which itself depends on the extent of living structure.hypothesis0.816
  Promised for Book 4, chapter 4 (Note 15).
• The fifteen properties emerge directly and inevitably from the unfolding of the whole; it is these fifteen properties that guide all differentiations during development.claim0.802
  Alexander's claim that living structure properties are not incidental but are the operative mechanisms of wholeness-preserving transformation
• "It is this substance which permits — OR DOES NOT PERMIT — the emergence of living centers in the material, and the adaptation of fine structure that is needed to bring the larger whole to life."quote0.801
  Alexander's foundational assertion connecting material substance directly to living structure.