Ultimately, understanding the universe has little real benefit. Engineering, fame, happiness, income don't require it. Real-world success requires dealing with problems that are tied to actual rewards. If you are curious like me and want to do it: go straight for the foundations.
Terminal values represent your ultimate personal purposes. I think we construct them in the process of creating full personal integrity, which involves making all behaviors accountable to each other, and usually requires subsuming them under a small set of principles.
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Instrumental values are conditional to promoting policies that serve the terminal values. To my mind, truth seems terminal, followed by personal sustainability. That makes my other values, like integrity, love, goodness, kindness, sincerity, beauty and hedonism instrumental.
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Correction: I notice that love still ranks higher than sustainability, and sometimes battles with integrity...
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