Values: Why We Need Them Although They Don't Exist

ISBN-13: 9783031421587 / Angielski

Andreas Urs Sommer; Paul Richards

Spis treści

• Existence is overrated. What are values?

• More value for your values. How many values do we need?

• The appeal of preliminarity. How are values?

• Values to bind them all – pending further qualification. What are values based on?

• Everywhere (else) is home. Where and when are values (applied)?

• Values and human rights: an excursus

• Locked and uptight positions, or: How do values keep their poise?

• Motivation boosters or recipes for paralysis? What do values have to offer? How do they function?

• The Taming of the Good. What values have to endure – and what makes them endure

• Against denotation. Values – what are they good for?

O autorze

Andreas Urs Sommer 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.

Blurb

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. Values 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.

Andreas Urs Sommer 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.