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Value Judgments
We all make value judgments at one time or another. ... Several overlapping interpretations of value may be a guiding principle, such a honesty; a value may be a quality, such as persistence; or value may be a goal, such as happiness; or a value may be the artistic or monetary worth of something. ...
Facts and Values
A crucial philosophical distinction is made between a factual judgment and a value judgment. Factual judgments are descriptive statements of empirical qualities or relations. One of the main issues in the area of value is whether value judgments express knowledge or feelings. Value judgments may be thought of merely as expression of our feelings and desires – that is, as subjective. Other philosophers think of a value as the quality of objects or situations that have worth – that is, as an objective quality of things. ...
How Values are Justified
A basic issue in value theory has to do with the ground of values and their place in the scheme of things.
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