The Mystery of Values: Studies in Axiology

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-90-420-0670-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 95, 157 Seiten, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 249 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book

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 status. The relationship between science and values is debated. Values should not be submitted to reductionism. Postmodernism raises new problems for the future of a philosophy of values. Yet, we may direct our hopes toward happiness, universalism, and humanism as inseparable from value-life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grünberg, Ludwig

Weitere Mitwirkende

Grünberg, Cornelia

Grünberg, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Ludwig Grünberg (1933–1995) graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Bucharest, Romania in 1955, with a Merit Diploma. He obtained his Doctor’s Degree in 1962 and became a Doctor’s Degree consultant in 1971. He was a Professor of Philosophy at the Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest. A teacher by vocation, Ludwig Grünberg endeavored to pass on to his students, including doctoral students, some of his own pathos in asking questions and searching for answers, some of his own respect and critical spirit with which he related to the great moments in the history of philosophy, some of his own aspiration toward self-realization, some of his own exactness and imagination with which he would conceive his ideas. Trying to set up a philosophical school in axiology, he was the leader of the Circle of Axiology in Bucharest in an adverse ideological time. Grünberg produced a significant number of university textbooks, lectures in philosophy, axiology, the history of philosophy, aesthetics, and general sociology. He was a member of the International Institute of Sociology since 1969, of the American Society for Value Inquiry since 1973, of the World Institute of Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning, since 1980, and of the International Society for Universalism since 1993. Grünberg left behind a multitude of manuscripts on axiology, the history of art, the history of culture, as well as a significant number of essays on varied related themes. His major interests were axiology and the ontology of the human.