The Conception of Intristic Value — Scriptorium Liberum

Intrinsic Value: Concept and Warrant

✍ Noah M. Lemos 📂 Library 📅 1994 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

This book addresses some basic questions about intrinsic value: What is it? What has it? What justifies our beliefs about it? The author defends the existence of a plurality of intrinsic goods, the thesis of organic unities, the view that some goods are ''higher'' than others, and the view that intr

Translating Values: Evaluative Concepts

📁 Translating Values: Evaluative Concepts in Translation

✍ Piotr Blumczynski, John Gillespie (eds.) 📂 Library 📅 2016 🏛 Palgrave Macmillan UK 🌐 English

<p>This collection explores the central importance of values and evaluative concepts in cross-cultural translational encounters. Written by a group of international scholars from a diverse range of linguistic and cultural backgrounds, the chapters in this book consider what it means to translate cul

The Conception of Value

📁 The Conception of Value

✍ Paul Grice 📂 Library 📅 1991 🏛 Clarendon Press 🌐 English

The Conception of Value

📁 The Conception of Value

✍ Paul Grice 📂 Library 📅 1991 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

The works of Paul Grice collected in this volume present his metaphysical defense of value, and represent a modern attempt to provide a metaphysical foundation for value. Value judgments are viewed as objective; value is part of the world we live in, but nonetheless is constructed by us. We inheri

The Concepts of Value: Foundations of Va

📁 The Concepts of Value: Foundations of Value Theory

✍ Karl Aschenbrenner (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 1971 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English

<p>The task of presenting for explicit view the store of appraisive terms our language affords has been undertaken in the conviction that it will be of interest not only to ethics and other philosophical studies but also to various areas of social science and linguistics. I have principally sought t

The intrinsic value of nature

📁 The intrinsic value of nature

✍ Leena Vilkka 📂 Library 📅 1997 🏛 Rodopi 🌐 English

What is intrinsic value? What is the origin of value? Are people always superior to nature? This book is a philosophical analysis of the human relationship to the non-human world. It is a pioneering study of the philosophy of nature-conservation in relation to the discussion of intrinsic value. Vilk