Questions tagged [values]
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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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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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How can moral disagreements be resolved when the conflicting parties are guided by fundamentally different value systems?
Consider the following scenarios:
Person A holds a belief system that regards human life as inherently sacred, leading them to oppose abortion in all circumstances, without exception. In contrast, ...
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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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Is science value-free?
Some people, like Sam Harris, say that science has values of its own. According to him, even a statement like "Water is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen" is value-laden. But I don't ...
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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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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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If we can't know whether a divine being exists, would that being be unimportant even if it did exist?
This is what I thought at first (by "objectively important," we mean this in the sense of naive moral realism, at least):
If there were an ultimately powerful, knowledgeable, and good being,...
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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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The Philosophy of War and Value Judgement [closed]
With the war in Ukraine, I think a field has been opened up for studying the philosophy of war deeper. First of all, I would like to state that I oppose the war in Ukraine and Russian government's ...
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