Objective Value
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An Objective Value is an agent value that is based on a objective measure.
- Context:
- It can be analyzed by a Objective Theory of Value.
- Example(s):
- I value beauty.
- I value nature.
- I value competition.
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- a Subjective Value, such as: I value surfing.
- a Non-Objective Value.
- See: Exchange Value.
References
2010
- (Wolf, 2010) ⇒ Susan Wolf. (2010). “Meaning in Life and Why It Matters." Princeton University Press. ISBN:9781400834594
- QUOTE: … resistance many readers are no doubt feeling toward my references to objective value, or to the corresponding view that some activities or projects are more fitting than others to be the objects of one’s life’s central passions. I shall begin the next lecture by responding to these concerns. Let me warn you in advance, though, that I shall not be offering a theory of objective value, much less a foolproof procedure for determining which things have it. ...