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Value theory

Index Value theory

In ethics and the social sciences, value theory involves various approaches that examine how, why, and to what degree humans value things and whether the object or subject of valuing is a person, idea, object, or anything else. [1]

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  1. 77 relations: Aesthetics, Aldo Leopold, Anthropological theories of value, Axiological ethics, Axiology, Émile Durkheim, Behaviorism, Categorical imperative, Cigarette, Consensus decision-making, Cultural institutions studies, Ecological economics, Ecology, Economic growth, Economics, Emergy, Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, Environmental ethics, Ethics, Exchange value, Friedrich Nietzsche, Golden Rule, Good and evil, Graded absolutism, Historical institutionalism, Historical materialism, Holmes Rolston III, Howard T. Odum, Illegalism, Immanuel Kant, Instrumental and intrinsic value, Intrinsic and extrinsic properties (philosophy), Intrinsic value (ethics), Intuitionism, Jürgen Habermas, John Dewey, John McMurtry (academic), Karl Marx, Labor theory of value, Law of value, Logic, Lung cancer, Marxism, Max Weber, Morality, Neo-Kantianism, Nicholas Rescher, Normative science, Objectivism, Philosophy, ... Expand index (27 more) »

  2. Axiological theories
  3. Theory of value (economics)
  4. Value (ethics)

Aesthetics

Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and the nature of taste; and functions as the philosophy of art.

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Aldo Leopold

Aldo Leopold (January 11, 1887 – April 21, 1948) was an American writer, philosopher, naturalist, scientist, ecologist, forester, conservationist, and environmentalist.

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Anthropological theories of value

Anthropological theories of value attempt to expand on the traditional theories of value used by economists or ethicists. Value theory and Anthropological theories of value are axiological theories and value (ethics).

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Axiological ethics

In philosophy, axiological ethics is concerned with the values by which people uphold ethical standards, and the investigation and development of theories of ethical behaviour.

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Axiology

Axiology (from Greek ἀξία, axia: "value, worth"; and -λογία, -logia: "study of") is the philosophical study of value.

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Émile Durkheim

David Émile Durkheim (or; 15 April 1858 – 15 November 1917), professionally known simply as Émile Durkheim, was a French sociologist.

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Behaviorism

Behaviorism (also spelled behaviourism) is a systematic approach to understand the behavior of humans and other animals.

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Categorical imperative

The categorical imperative (kategorischer Imperativ) is the central philosophical concept in the deontological moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant.

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Cigarette

A cigarette is a narrow cylinder containing a combustible material, typically tobacco, that is rolled into thin paper for smoking.

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Consensus decision-making

Consensus decision-making or consensus process (often abbreviated to consensus) is a group decision-making process in which participants develop and decide on proposals with the goal of achieving broad acceptance, defined by its terms as form of consensus.

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Cultural institutions studies

Cultural institutions studies (a translation of the German term Kulturbetriebslehre) is an academic approach "which investigates activities in the cultural sector, conceived as historically evolved societal forms of organising the conception, production, distribution, propagation, interpretation, reception, conservation and maintenance of specific cultural goods".

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Ecological economics

Ecological economics, bioeconomics, ecolonomy, eco-economics, or ecol-econ is both a transdisciplinary and an interdisciplinary field of academic research addressing the interdependence and coevolution of human economies and natural ecosystems, both intertemporally and spatially.

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Ecology

Ecology is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment.

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Economic growth

Economic growth can be defined as the increase or improvement in the inflation-adjusted market value of the goods and services produced by an economy in a financial year.

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Economics

Economics is a social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

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Emergy

Emergy is the amount of energy consumed in direct and indirect transformations to make a product or service.

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Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems

The Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) is an integrated compendium of twenty one encyclopedias.

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Environmental ethics

In environmental philosophy, environmental ethics is an established field of practical philosophy "which reconstructs the essential types of argumentation that can be made for protecting natural entities and the sustainable use of natural resources." The main competing paradigms are anthropocentrism, physiocentrism (called ecocentrism as well), and theocentrism.

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Ethics

Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena.

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Exchange value

In political economy and especially Marxian economics, exchange value (Tauschwert) refers to one of the four major attributes of a commodity, i.e., an item or service produced for, and sold on the market, the other three attributes being use value, economic value, and price.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers.

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Golden Rule

The Golden Rule is the principle of treating others as one would want to be treated by them.

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Good and evil

In philosophy, religion, and psychology, "good and evil" is a common dichotomy. Value theory and Good and evil are value (ethics).

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Graded absolutism

Graded absolutism is a theory of moral absolutism (in Christian ethics) which resolves the objection to absolutism (i.e., in moral conflicts, we are obligated to opposites).

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Historical institutionalism

Historical institutionalism (HI) is a new institutionalist social science approach that emphasizes how timing, sequences and path dependence affect institutions, and shape social, political, economic behavior and change.

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Historical materialism

Historical materialism is Karl Marx's theory of history.

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Holmes Rolston III

Holmes Rolston III (born November 19, 1932) is a philosopher who is University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University.

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Howard T. Odum

Howard Thomas Odum (September 1, 1924 – September 11, 2002), usually cited as H. T. Odum, was an American ecologist.

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Illegalism

Illegalism is a tendency of anarchism that developed primarily in France, Italy, Belgium and Switzerland during the late 1890s and early 1900s as an outgrowth of individualist anarchism.

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Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers.

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Instrumental and intrinsic value

In moral philosophy, instrumental and intrinsic value are the distinction between what is a means to an end and what is as an end in itself. Value theory and instrumental and intrinsic value are value (ethics).

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Intrinsic and extrinsic properties (philosophy)

An intrinsic property is a property that a thing has itself, including its context.

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Intrinsic value (ethics)

In ethics, intrinsic value is a property of anything that is valuable on its own. Value theory and intrinsic value (ethics) are axiological theories and value (ethics).

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Intuitionism

In the philosophy of mathematics, intuitionism, or neointuitionism (opposed to preintuitionism), is an approach where mathematics is considered to be purely the result of the constructive mental activity of humans rather than the discovery of fundamental principles claimed to exist in an objective reality.

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Jürgen Habermas

Jürgen Habermas (born 18 June 1929) is a German philosopher and social theorist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism.

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John Dewey

John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer.

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John McMurtry (academic)

John McMurtry was a University Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Guelph, Canada.

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Karl Marx

Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German-born philosopher, political theorist, economist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist.

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Labor theory of value

The labor theory of value (LTV) is a theory of value that argues that the exchange value of a good or service is determined by the total amount of "socially necessary labor" required to produce it. Value theory and labor theory of value are theory of value (economics).

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Law of value

The law of the value of commodities (German: Wertgesetz der Waren), known simply as the law of value, is a central concept in Karl Marx's critique of political economy first expounded in his polemic The Poverty of Philosophy (1847) against Pierre-Joseph Proudhon with reference to David Ricardo's economics. Value theory and law of value are theory of value (economics).

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Logic

Logic is the study of correct reasoning.

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Lung cancer

Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma, is a malignant tumor that begins in the lung.

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Marxism

Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis.

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Max Weber

Maximilian Karl Emil Weber (21 April 186414 June 1920) was a German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist who was one of the central figures in the development of sociology and the social sciences more generally.

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Morality

Morality is the categorization of intentions, decisions and actions into those that are proper (right) and those that are improper (wrong).

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Neo-Kantianism

In late modern continental philosophy, neo-Kantianism (Neukantianismus) was a revival of the 18th-century philosophy of Immanuel Kant.

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Nicholas Rescher

Nicholas Rescher (15 July 1928 – 5 January 2024) was a German-born American philosopher, polymath, and author, who was a professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh from 1961.

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Normative science

In the applied sciences, normative science is a type of information that is developed, presented, or interpreted based on an assumed, usually unstated, preference for a particular outcome, policy or class of policies or outcomes.

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Objectivism

Objectivism is a philosophical system named and developed by Russian-American writer and philosopher Ayn Rand.

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Philosophy

Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.

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Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality

The Metaphysics of Quality (MOQ) is a theory of reality introduced in Robert M. Pirsig's philosophical novel, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974) and expanded in Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991). Value theory and Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality are axiological theories.

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Plato

Plato (Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (Ἀριστοκλῆς; – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms.

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Postmodern philosophy

Postmodern philosophy is a philosophical movement that arose in the second half of the 20th century as a critical response to assumptions allegedly present in modernist philosophical ideas regarding culture, identity, history, or language that were developed during the 18th-century Age of Enlightenment.

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Practical philosophy

Practical philosophy concerns itself mainly with subjects that have applications in life, like the study of values, norms, politics, art, etc.

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Pragmatism

Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that views language and thought as tools for prediction, problem solving, and action, rather than describing, representing, or mirroring reality.

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Psychology

Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior.

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Public good (economics)

In economics, a public good (also referred to as a social good or collective good)Oakland, W. H. (1987).

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Rationality

Rationality is the quality of being guided by or based on reason.

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Rationality and Power

Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice is a 1998 book by Bent Flyvbjerg, published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Revealed preference

Revealed preference theory, pioneered by economist Paul Anthony Samuelson in 1938, is a method of analyzing choices made by individuals, mostly used for comparing the influence of policies on consumer behavior.

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Science

Science is a strict systematic discipline that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the world.

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Service economy

Service economy can refer to one or both of two recent economic developments.

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Silvio Gesell

Johann Silvio Gesell (17 March 1862 – 11 March 1930) was a German-Argentine economist, merchant, and the founder of Freiwirtschaft, an economic model for market socialism.

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Social contract

In moral and political philosophy, the social contract is an idea, theory or model that usually, although not always, concerns the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual.

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Social science

Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies.

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Sociology

Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.

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Substance use disorder

Substance use disorder (SUD) is the persistent use of drugs despite the substantial harm and adverse consequences to one's own self and others, as a result of their use.

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Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.

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Summum bonum

Summum bonum is a Latin expression meaning the highest or ultimate good, which was introduced by the Roman philosopher Cicero to denote the fundamental principle on which some system of ethics is based — that is, the aim of actions, which, if consistently pursued, will lead to the best possible life.

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Talcott Parsons

Talcott Parsons (December 13, 1902 – May 8, 1979) was an American sociologist of the classical tradition, best known for his social action theory and structural functionalism.

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Thick concept

In philosophy, a thick concept (sometimes: thick normative concept, or thick evaluative concept) is a kind of concept that both has a significant degree of descriptive content and is evaluatively loaded.

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Tobacco

Tobacco is the common name of several plants in the genus Nicotiana of the family Solanaceae, and the general term for any product prepared from the cured leaves of these plants.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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Value (economics)

In economics, economic value is a measure of the benefit provided by a good or service to an economic agent, and value for money represents an assessment of whether financial or other resources are being used effectively in order to secure such benefit. Value theory and value (economics) are theory of value (economics).

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Value (ethics and social sciences)

In ethics and social sciences, value denotes the degree of importance of some thing or action, with the aim of determining which actions are best to do or what way is best to live (normative ethics in ethics), or to describe the significance of different actions. Value theory and value (ethics and social sciences) are value (ethics).

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Value engineering

Value engineering (VE) is a systematic analysis of the functions of various components and materials to lower the cost of goods, products and services with a tolerable loss of performance or functionality.

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Value-added theory

Value-added theory (also known as social strain theory) is a sociological theory, first proposed by Neil Smelser in 1962, which posits that certain conditions are needed for the development of a social movement.

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See also

Axiological theories

Theory of value (economics)

Value (ethics)

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_theory

Also known as Goodness and value theory, Moral value, TheoryOfValue.

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