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Concept of Values in Contemporary Philosophical Value Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Abraham Edel
Abraham Edel*
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The City College of New York
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The term “value” has a wide range of current usage in philospohy and the sciences. Descriptively, a man's “values” may refer to all his attitudes for-or-against anything. His values include his perferences and avoidances, his desire-objects and aversion-objects, his pleasure and pain tendencies, his goals, ideals, interests and disinterests, what he takes to be right and wrong, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, useful and useless, his approvals and disapprovals, his criteria of taste and standards of judgment, and so forth.

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , July 1953 , pp. 198 - 207
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Copyright © 1953, The Williams & Wilkins Company

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Presented at a meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association and Section L of the AAAS, December 29, 1951.

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