Questions tagged [values]
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What is the relationship between values and meaning (in life)?
Please correct me if you think I am wrong, but it has become apparent to me that meaning - in the senses of significance of one's own life, purpose and sense-making - and values are inextricably ...
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What's the difference among integrity, probity and honesty?
I have read about these three values/qualities but I'm confused how these three terms are different.
I know this —
Integrity is about the congruence of what you think, say and do.
Honesty is about ...
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What does "Normative" Mean?
I was reading the SEP articles on aesthetic judgment and had a really hard time understanding some parts. What it came down to is that they were using a definition of 'normative' I did not know. The ...
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What are personal values more exactly?
Ever since the new year, I've been researching personal values with the goal of understanding what they mean and which ones I have. I've been doing some reading about them here and there, ever so ...
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The Philosophy of War and Value Judgement
With the wars in Ukraine, I think a field has been opened up for studying the philosophy of war more. First of all, I would like to state that I oppose the war in Ukraine and Russian goverment's ...
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What informs the value theory one practices?
Stanford Encyclopedia states:
"In its broadest sense, “value theory” is a catch-all label used to
encompass all branches of moral philosophy, social and political
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Assuming meta-ethical subjective relativism, what is the bearer of value?
Is it the particular condition of concrete events, objects, or actions that are valuable for their own sake?
Or is it particular mental states of observers that are the bearers, and creators, of value?...
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What determines the value of money?
The value of money can be defined as the cost to produce it. It costs, say, 1, to produce 10 000 000 coins or notes, while digital money costs virtually nothing. Of course, it can also be that it ...
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What is the axiological basis of the preference of truth to falsity?
Axiologically speaking, why is truth the preferred logical value by humans? In general, why do we prefer true statements to false ones? What about the value of true makes a statement "right,"...
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Is there a universally accepted definition of what constitutes 'science' from a philosophy of science perspective?
The term science gets bandied about so much that it is not always clear what is meant. This is fine in conversation, etc. But it becomes problematic when the question becomes, is there a proper domain ...
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Why is Savulescu's (2001) Nuclear Accident case a case of harmless wrong-doing rather than a case of harmful wrong-doing?
Savulescu (2001) writes:
"Or consider the Nuclear Accident. A poor country does not have enough power to provide power to its citizens during an extremely cold winter. The government decides to open ...
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How do Burkean conservatives respond to the accusation of cultural relativism?
I sincerely hope that this is the right StackExchange to ask this question. Politics deals with pragmatics and History seldom deals with more abstract questions.
As far as I can gather, Burkean ...
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Which philosophers explore the link between value and presuppositions?
For instance suppose a person, A, reads that God said to man that he, man, should not do something but because the man does it, they, A, believe that therefore man has free will, but, this is because ...
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Value of human life in a simulation [closed]
I’m interested to see whether people think the value of human life is worth less if our existence is the result of a simulation created by a “higher being.” Would living in base reality give more ...
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Is there an aspect of the person that is outside time and or size? Does anyone argue that to defeat nihilism?
Is there an aspect of the person that is outside time or scale? Does anyone argue that to defeat nihilism, and does that come up in discussing value nihilism?
I just think that anyone who claims that ...
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How is/was "good" (as the contrary of bad) defined? [closed]
As Nietzsche differentiated there are two kinds of good: this question's focus is on the contrary of bad, not the contrary of evil.
There are quite a lot of possible ways to define the common term "...
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Pandora's Box: Is hope evil? [closed]
I know, most questions here are more sophisticated, but this question sparked in my mind some time ago:
Is hope a bad thing?
The reason I got to this idea is that I had a hard time with lots of ...
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According to Popper, what is logical positivism's role in scientific ethics?
What are the arguments for and against this? Any resources that are easy to read would help
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Why is "re-evaluating all values" necessary to become an Übermensch?
From previous answers it became clear to me that Nietzsche did not think that there has been any Übermensch yet. He identified Goethe as a person that has overcome and disciplined himself to advance ...
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Does anyone say that for some things to be fake just means that those things are not good?
Does anyone say that for some things to be fake just means that those things are not good? Sorry for the very convoluted sounding question, some brief background might help?
I remember a snippet from ...
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"No one is evil/guilty". Anyone who held this position?
What I mean is that no one deserves punishment. Each time someone is imprisoned or punished in different ways, it is not a win, but always a loss. In particular, lack of technology. In particular, ...
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Was Nietzsche against hedonism?
At first, I think there is a difference between utilitarianism and hedonism in that first assumes some kind of utility which can be calculated and last simply puts that it's natural (we are not here ...
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Is value purely based on preference?
To me, value seems like just an arbitrary concept we attach to things based off of how positively or negatively they currently/eventually will effect us. Since whether or not things can be positive or ...
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Why should life have any more value than death? [closed]
When I die, I won't enter eternity, as my concept of eternity has to come from a conscious being. When I am dead I am not conscious, therefore not only will I not be able to conceptualize eternity, ...
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Does moral anti-realism preclude anyone from being a better judge of value?
It seems to me that moral anti-realism, by which I mean the view that no judgments of intrinsic value are true, implies that nothing is intrinsically better or worse.
Does this preclude the idea ...
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Is there a philosophical description or analogy for the concept that it is better to be a master of one trade than a jack of all trades?
I am wondering if any philosophers have described this concept. For example, if you wanted to get into music school, it would be better to master one instrument than try to get good at two instruments....
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Do Nietzsche's values justify some actions?
Do Nietzsche's values justify some actions? I'm asking because if so then my entirely trivial, or at least unfocused, appropriation of his ideas can be easily made more elegant, or at least more ...
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Instrumentalist value theory. Is it morally nihilistic? Is it science?
I could not give a better name for this theory, so I call it "Instrumentalist value theory". According to this theory nothing is intrinsically valuable. Nothing and no one can be treated as ends, but ...
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Can philosophy say that these precepts are wrong?
If we take the ambiguous nature[1] (in its current form) of the sixth commandment...
Thou shalt not kill
...we must remember that Jesus instructed his followers to forgive[2], that none are ...
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Does "intrinsic" mean independently of anything else?
I believe that 'intrinsic' quality has, in some sense, itself as its origin.
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The intrinsic value of something is said to be the value that that
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Question about the relationship between matter and value
Seems most or all of our expressions of material things are stated in various values--36' long, 120 volts, .192mm diameter, etc. Does this suggest the possibility that matter is just value, i.e., ...
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How can political philosophy and moral philosophy differ in the context of moral limits on the market?
When I ask this question, I'm specifically referencing ideas posited by theorists like Michael Sandel (The Tanner Lectures - What Money Can't Buy), Elizabeth Anderson (The Ethical Limitations of the ...
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Is coherence a fact or value, a la Hillary Putnam?
Is there a collapse between fact and values? Are they the same thing or not?
See the essay:
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-25249-7_15
Where Putnam states:
So far, what I have ...
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What are some arguments for why lives are valuable?
In ethics, the idea that lives, in and of themselves, are valuable (with a complete disregard of the consequences that followed from that life) is often used to prove some point, but the claim that ...
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Ethical values according to Polanyi
What role do (ethical) values have in science according to Polanyi and Kuhn?
How does Polanyi define tacit knowledge and what view would Popper and Kuhn have on tacit knowledge?
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What role do values have in science according to Popper?
I have read a lot about Popper but I still can not answer.
What is the role of values in Popper's philosophy? What role do they have in science according to Popper?
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Can Nietzsche's "will to power" make a person's life meaningful?
People seem to find some sort of "meaning" in Nietzsche. My question is, more specifically, can someone's "will to power" make their life meaningful, according to him? Does Nietzsche address anywhere ...
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What are some arguments for the metaphysical specialty of life or consciousness
There are certain people who consider conscious beings or "life", however that is define, to be important in the sense that there is some form of intrinsic value in them or that they are axiomatically ...
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Are values dominant behaviours of a society, or are they personal?
My lecturer told me:
"Values are the dominant behaviours and beliefs of a society or a group" and that values have nothing to do with individuals.
But then on other sites I have read things such ...
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Does anyone claim that absolute or in itself value (in Kant's senses) must be about something which exists?
Do these sorts of value depend on the valuable thing existing?
I'm asking just because I'm suspicious of valuable things which do not always exist, and want to (eventually) find the terminology for ...
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How can one objectivley measure the nobility or value of a given pursuit?
John Stuart Mill famously said:
It is quite compatible with the principle of utility to recognise the fact, that some kinds of pleasure are more desirable and more valuable than others. It would ...
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What is the relationship between qualia and the fact/value dichotomy
Has anyone examined the relationship between qualia and the fact/value dichotomy?
Consider a functional description of pain: Those who disagree with functionalism, typically do so because it leaves ...
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What is the philosophical value of cultural diversity?
A personal question:
As an Arab-American, I try to maintain my children's ties to Arab culture and the Arabic language, going out of my way to make sure that they speak Arabic fluently, and sending ...
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If it's impossible to separate science from metaphysics, is it is also impossible to separate science from ethics and values?
One of the most important results in philosophy of science is that every observation is "theory-laden", i.e. that the outcome of any scientific experiment is affected by the theoretical ...
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Why are equality and fairness valued so highly?
Some philosophies, such as Egalitarianism, highly value equality and fairness. My question is, why? What is so great about equality and fairness?
For example, the Soviet Union was much more equal ...
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Can there be a unidirectional value system?
I tried to make a point about language on another SE site and it flopped. So I realized that I was focusing on an idea of having two-valued assessment: good and bad. What if we did away with this ...
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Is Selfishness ethical or unethical? [closed]
I have always seen people first care for themselves and then for others. On the contrary, it doesn't seem wrong as self-interest is indispensable. But is acting for own interest and not caring about ...
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What does Marx mean by "value form"?
I've been reading some recent books that refer to money as the "value form" in Marx.
In English translation, Marx does use the term "value form" and also refers to commodities as "values," in the ...
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What does Pirsig mean by "Quality"?
I just finished reading Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, which I understand to be a popular-yet-important book for those looking to enter the realm of philosophical ...
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Why do rational beings care about the dead?
Anthropologists tell us that home sapiens are concerned about "others," even after they die.
In settled (as opposed to nomadic) societies this concern seems to catalyze beliefs, rituals, and ...
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