Personal Value

Toni Ronnow-Rasmussen, "Personal Value"
English | ISBN: 0199603782 | 2011 | 240 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB

Certain things, like justiciary, have impersonal value. Other things, like your parents, compass personal values: they have value since you. Besides whatever value they bear, they are valuable to you. The philosophical belles-lettres as well as non-philosophical lore is inundated with suggestions about the kinds of matter that are good for us or, whether it is a negative personal estimate, what is bad for us. This is a stimulating and vivid area of philosophical research, but it has tended to monopolize the notion of 'good-for', linking it necessarily to welfare or well-being. Since these other thing or less well-grounded pieces of intelligence are seldom accompanied by an resolution of the notion of 'good-in opposition to', there is a need for such an analysis. Ronnow-Rasmussen remedies this be in want of, by offering a novel way of analyzing the concept of personal value. He defends the model that we have reason to blow up our classical value taxonomy with these personal values. By fine-tuning a style of value analysis which has roots in the writings of the Austrian searcher after truth Franz Bretano, this sort of algebra will come to cover personal values, over. In addition, Ronnow-Rasmussen makes stable contributions to a number of issues, including eudaemonism vs. preferentialism, subjectivism vs. objectivism, duration bearer monism vs. value bearer pluralism, and the inaccurate kind of reason problem -- all of that are much debated among today's relative length theorists.