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Values
Why We Need Them Although They Don't Exist|
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| Verlag: | Palgrave Macmillan |
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| Veröffentl.: | 09.12.2023 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9783031421594 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
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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. <i>Values</i> 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.
<div><div>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?.</div></div><div><br></div>
<b>Andreas Urs Sommer</b> 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.
<div>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. <i>Values </i>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.</div><div><br></div>
Reflects on the question of what it really means when everybody’s appealing to values Suggests that values are just a set of elaborate fictions Comes to the conclusion that maybe those fictions serve some very important purposes
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