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Value (ethics)

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personal value, basis for ethical action

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or the products of the labor, of others.” Carey(192) says, “Value is the measure of the resistance to be overcome in obtaining those commodities or things required for our purposes—of the power of nature over man.” Value is thus, with him, the antithesis of wealth, which is (according to Carey) the power of man over nature. In this school, value is the service rendered by any one who supplies the article for the use…
John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy
The chapter “Chapter I. Of Value.” is titled for Value; names Value several times.
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We shall hold that Valuation, and so all consciousness of Value, properly so called, must be either ethical or economic; that the only conscious processes in which Values can come to definition are these processes of ethical and economic judgment. The present theory of Value is, then, essentially a logical one, in the sense of holding that Values are determined in and by a logical--that is, a…
John Dewey, Studies in Logical Theory
Names Value several times; states what Value is.
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This establishes an order of preference, a greater and less, better and worse. Things judged or passed upon have to be estimated in relation to some third thing, some further end. With respect to that, they are means, or instrumental values.
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
The chapter “Chapter Eighteen: Educational Values” is titled for Value; names Value several times.
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