Value Theory
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Value Theory

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Value Theory

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What is it for a car, a piece of art or a person to be good, bad or better than another? In this first book-length introduction to value theory, Francesco Orsi explores the nature of evaluative concepts used in everyday thinking and speech and in contemporary philosophical discourse. The various dimensions, structures and connections that value concepts express are interrogated with clarity and incision. Orsi provides a systematic survey of both classic texts including Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Moore and Ross and an array of contemporary theorists. The reader is guided through the moral maze of value theory with everyday examples and thought experiments. Rare stamps, Napoleon's hat, evil demons, and Kant's good will are all considered in order to probe our intuitions, question our own and philosophers' assumptions about value, and, ultimately, understand better what we want to say when we talk about value.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2015
ISBN
9781472525307
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. FC
  2. Half title
  3. Bloomsbury Ethics
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Preface
  9. 1 Value and Normativity
  10. 2 Meet the Values: Intrinsic, Final & Co.
  11. 3 The Challenge against Absolute Value
  12. 4 Personal Value
  13. 5 The Chemistry of Value
  14. 6 Value Relations
  15. 7 How Do I Favour Thee?
  16. 8 Value and the Wrong Kind of Reasons
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index