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Values Compared

Author

Summary, in English

Gert (2004) has suggested that several different types of value relations, including parity, can be clearly distinguished from each other if one interprets value comparisons as normative assessments of preference, while allowing for two levels of normativity - requirement and permission. While this basic idea is attractive, the particular modeling Gert makes use of is flawed. This paper presents an alternative modeling, developed in Rabinowicz (2008), and a general taxonomy of binary value relations. Another version of value analysis is then brought in, which appeals to appropriate emotions rather than preferences. It is also shown what the modeling of value relations would look like from such an emotion-centered perspective. The preference-based and the emotion-based approaches differ importantly from each other, but they give rise to isomorphic taxonomies.

Publishing year

2009

Language

English

Pages

73-96

Publication/Series

Polish Journal of Philosophy

Volume

3

Document type

Journal article

Topic

  • Philosophy

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1897-1652