The Place of Value in a World of Facts - Softcover

Kohler, Wolfgang

Softcover

ISBN 10: 087140107X ISBN 13: 9780871401076

Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1976

Synopsis

Can values operate in a world of facts and still be more than indifferent facts themselves? In this important and challenging book, Wolfgang Kohler's subject is value, or what he calls the "requiredness" of an object or activity. Starting with a descriptive account of values as we become aware of them, he finds that, inside certain contexts, parts of such structures do not appear as indifferent facts. They are experienced as belonging there intrinsically or, also, as being out of place in their contexts. Kohler's closely reasoned analysis, drawing on the fields of psychology, biology, and physics, centers around this concept of requiredness. Certain things in nature belong together or require the presence of one another in such a way that fitness or requiredness constitutes a principles of association between them. This same principle of association, Kohler suggests, may help to explain the idea of value and lay a foundation for the scientific solution of ethical problems.

About this title

Synopsis:

Defining value as the requiredness of an activity or object, the author describes value experiences and the nature, meaning, development, and function of value on the physical, psychological, and philosophical levels. Bibliogs.

About this edition

• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 087140107X
• ISBN 13: 9780871401076
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 324