The Structure of Value: Foundations of Scientific Axiology - Softcover

Hartman, Robert S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1610978420 ISBN 13: 9781610978422

Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub, 2011

Synopsis

Hartman's revolutionary book introduces formal orderly thinking into value theory. It identifies three basic kinds of value, intrinsic goods (e.g. people as ends in themselves), extrinsic goods (e.g. things and actions as means to ends), and systemic goods (conceptual values). All good things share a common formal or structural pattern: they fulfill the ideal standards or "concepts" that we apply to them. Thus, this theory is called "formal axiology" Some values are richer in good-making property-fulfillment than others, so some desirable things are better than others and form patterned hierarchies of value. How we value is just as important as what we value, and evaluations, like values, share structures or formal patterns, as this book demonstrates. Hartman locates all of this solidly within the framework of historical value theory, but he moves successfully and creatively beyond philosophical tradition and toward the creation of a new value science.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1610978420
• ISBN 13: 9781610978422
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 404