To define an intrinsic good is that it is good and valued for its own sake. Mine is friendship, it is magic after all. My reason for friendship is a vanilla one, it brings more than just good results. Friendship can give me happiness, experiences and even a longer life span.
The one way to tell this different than an Instrumental value is that they are both independent from their goals and definition. Instrumental value is to define an item that means to an end. The most obvious is money, to sound like a trust fund hipster "Money is just cotton and metal that we give false value to". Money on its own is worthless, what we get is what matters. Now the reason why we need to compare these values is because they can easily cross into one another,
The one way to tell this different than an Instrumental value is that they are both independent from their goals and definition. Instrumental value is to define an item that means to an end. The most obvious is money, to sound like a trust fund hipster "Money is just cotton and metal that we give false value to". Money on its own is worthless, what we get is what matters. Now the reason why we need to compare these values is because they can easily cross into one another,