Axiology
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| - | '''Axiology''', from the Greek ''axia'' (''αξια'', value, worth), is the study of value or quality. It is often thought to include [[ethics]] and [[aesthetics]]—philosophical fields that depend crucially on notions of value—and sometimes it is held to lay the groundwork for these fields, and thus to be similar to [[value theory]] and [[meta-ethics]]. The term was used in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but in recent decades, [[value theory]] has tended to replace it in discussions of the nature of value or goodness in general.{{Fact|date=March 2007}} | + | '''Axiology''' (from [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] ''axiā'', "value, worth"; and ''[[logos|-logos]]'') is the [[Philosophy|philosophical]] study of [[value (ethics)|value]]. It is either the collective term for [[ethics]] and [[aesthetics]] —philosophical fields that depend crucially on notions of value—or the foundation for these fields, and thus similar to [[value theory]] and [[meta-ethics]]. The term was first used in the early 20th century by Paul Lapie, in 1902, and [[Eduard von Hartmann]], in 1908. |
| - | The term is also used sometimes in [[economics]]. | + | Axiology studies mainly two kinds of values: [[ethics]] and [[aesthetics]]. Ethics investigates the concepts of "right" and "good" in individual and social conduct. Aesthetics studies the concepts of "beauty" and "harmony." '''Formal axiology,''' the attempt to lay out principles regarding value with [[mathematical rigor]], is exemplified by [[Robert S. Hartman]]'s [[Science of Value]]. |
| - | A popular work by [[Robert M. Pirsig]], ''[[Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance]],'' introduced the term "axiology" to a general [[audience]], although not in any technical context.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{PAGENAMEE}}] [Apr 2007] | + | ==See also== |
| + | *[[Money]] | ||
| + | *[[N.O. Lossky]] | ||
| + | *[[Russian philosophy]] | ||
| + | *[[Value theory]] | ||
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Axiology (from Greek axiā, "value, worth"; and -logos) is the philosophical study of value. It is either the collective term for ethics and aesthetics —philosophical fields that depend crucially on notions of value—or the foundation for these fields, and thus similar to value theory and meta-ethics. The term was first used in the early 20th century by Paul Lapie, in 1902, and Eduard von Hartmann, in 1908.
Axiology studies mainly two kinds of values: ethics and aesthetics. Ethics investigates the concepts of "right" and "good" in individual and social conduct. Aesthetics studies the concepts of "beauty" and "harmony." Formal axiology, the attempt to lay out principles regarding value with mathematical rigor, is exemplified by Robert S. Hartman's Science of Value.
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