Values

Why We Need Them Although They Don't Exist
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-42158-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 159 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 343 g

In his book, Andreas Urs Sommer reflects on the question of what it really means when everybody’s appealing to values, all the time – the question, fundamentally, of what values actually are. Values explores both of these points, arriving at two intriguing suggestions: Maybe what we call values are just a set of elaborate fictions. And maybe those fictions serve some very important purposes.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sommer, Andreas Urs

Weitere Mitwirkende

Richards, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Existence Is Overrated. What Is a Value?.- 2. Even More. Where Do Values Come from? And How Many Are There?.- 3. Allure of the Temporary. How Is a Value?.- 4. The Power to Connect, the Power to Relativize. What Do Values Relate To?.- 5. At Home Nowhere and Everywhere. Where and When Are Values (in Use)?.- 6. Excursus I: Values and Human Rights.- 7. The Unstable Recovery Position. How Is a Value Positioned?.- 8. Miracles of Motivation and Guarantors of Paralysis. What Do Values Have? What Do They Do?.- 9. An Unruly Victim Tamed. What Things Are Done to Values?.- 10. Excursus II: Values in the Political Soap Opera.- 11. Against Prescriptions. Why Values?.

Über Autor(innen)

Andreas Urs Sommer is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Freiburg, Germany, and head of the “Nietzsche Commentary” research centre at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.