Concept
Value theory
Overview
philosophical study of value
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The consciousness of value may best be described, by way of first approximation, in the language of the Austrian economists as a sense of the "importance" to oneself of a commodity or defined moral purpose. It belongs to the agent's attitude of survey or recapitulation which ensues upon the completion of the judgment-process and is mediated by attention to the ethical or economic object in its newly defined…
John Dewey, Studies in Logical Theory
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_V. Theory of Value._ It is now about a hundred years since a book appeared in Leipsic which by the beginning of this century had gone through thirty-one editions and which was distributed throughout the towns and the country districts by officials, preachers and humanitarians, of all sorts, and which was universally adopted in the schools as a reader. This book was called, "The Children's Friend" by Rochow.
Friedrich Engels, Landmarks of Scientific Socialism
Close in meaning to Value theory; the term itself is not named.
Values cannot be both ideal and given, and their “given” character is emphasized, not transformed, when they are called eternal and absolute. But natural values become ideal the moment their maintenance is dependent upon the intentional activities of an empirical agent.
John Dewey, The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, and other essays in contemporary thought
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Philosophers who discussed Value theory
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Immanuel Kant
- Constantin Noica
- Intellectual
- Robert Nozick
- Ralph Barton Perry
- David Lewis (philosopher)
- Richard McKeon
- Alexius Meinong
- Roderick Chisholm
- David Gauthier
- James Feibleman
- Nikolay Lossky
- Peter Glassen
- David Prall
- Francisco Elías de Tejada y Spínola
- Ole Martin Moen
- Thaddeus Metz
- W. B. Gallie
- Mahmoud Khatami
Related ideas
- Epicurus
- Egalitarianism
- Moral nihilism
- Emotion
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Instrumental and intrinsic value
- Beatific vision
- Avicenna
- Self-evidence
- Neo-Kantianism
- Wilhelm Windelband
- G. E. Moore
- Philosophical realism
- Hedonism
- Philosophy
- Philippa Foot
- Kama
- Immanuel Kant
- Ancient Greek
- Intuition
- John Stuart Mill
- Isaiah Berlin
- Truth value
- John Dewey
Opposing perspectives
- Well-being
- Truth
- Mind
- Non-cognitivism
- Anti-realism
- Emotivism
- Intention
- Courage
- Good and evil
- Education
- Universal value
Place in the tradition
Part of Aesthetics.