The Mystery of Values : : Studies in Axiology / / Ludwig Grünberg
This study of axiology explores the axiocentricity of being human. Human beings dwell in the realm of value. Values are not simply what persons have; values in large part are what persons are. The mystique of values is analyzed here in terms of their cultural, phenomenological, and ontological statu...
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| Superior document: | Value Inquiry Book Series ; 95 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2000. |
| Year of Publication: | 2000 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Value Inquiry Book Series ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- Editorial Foreword. Preface. Introduction by the Editors. PART ONE A DISCOVERY: THE REALM OF VALUES. Chapter One. From the Mystery of Values to Axiology. Chapter Two. Is a Scientific Reconstruction of the Axiological Possible? PART TWO A CONNECTION: VALUE AND CULTURE. Chapter Three. Value in Culture and Culture as Value. Chapter Four. Positivist Reductionism and the Mirage of Non-Philosophical Culture. Chapter Five. Reductionism to Literature and the Temptation of a Post-Philosophical Culture. PART THREE A PROJECT: THE AXIOCENTRIC ONTOLOGY. Chapter Six. The Phenomenology of Value and the Value of Phenomenology. Chapter Seven. Coordinates of an Axiocentric Ontology of the Human. PART FOUR A HOPE: UNIVERSALISM. Editorial Note. Chapter Eight. Happiness: The Loftiest Value of Humankind. Chapter Nine. The Orphic Myth and the Human Condition. Notes. Bibliography. About the Author. Index.