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Concerning Value Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

L. Haworth
Affiliation:
University of Alabama
J. S. Minas
Affiliation:
University of Illinois

Extract

There has been much discussion in recent years of the possibilities for and nature of “value science.” The present paper is intended to be a contribution to this discussion. One encouraging feature of the bulk of current discussion of value science is that its protagonists have a definite end in view, namely, “human betterment,” taking that phrase in the common sense as covering, at least, a process of creating and maintaining such conditions of life as enable human beings successfully to engage in satisfying activities.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1954

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