Values: Why We Need Them Although They Don’t Exist

✍ Scribed by Andreas Urs Sommer

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Tongue: English
Leaves: 159
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

In his book, Andreas Urs Sommer reflects on the question of what it really means when everybody’s appealing to values, all the time – the question, fundamentally, of what values actually are. Values explores both of these points, arriving at two intriguing suggestions: Maybe what we call values are just a set of elaborate fictions. And maybe those fictions serve some very important purposes.

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