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Values : Why We Need Them Although They Don’t Exist / by Andreas Urs Sommer

1st ed. 2024.

Cham : Springer International Publishing [2024.] ; Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan [2024.], 2024

1 Online-Ressource(XII, 159 p.)

Englisch

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978-3-031-42159-4

978-3-031-42158-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-3-031-42160-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1007/978-3-031-42159-4

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LOC-SH: Ethics.

1. Existence Is Overrated. What Is a Value? -- 2. Even More. Where Do Values Come from? And How Many Are There? -- 3. Allure of the Temporary. How Is a Value? -- 4. The Power to Connect, the Power to Relativize. What Do Values Relate To? -- 5. At Home Nowhere and Everywhere. Where and When Are Values (in Use)? -- 6. Excursus I: Values and Human Rights -- 7. The Unstable Recovery Position. How Is a Value Positioned? -- 8. Miracles of Motivation and Guarantors of Paralysis. What Do Values Have? What Do They Do? -- 9. An Unruly Victim Tamed. What Things Are Done to Values? -- 10. Excursus II: Values in the Political Soap Opera -- 11. Against Prescriptions. Why Values?.

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In his book, Andreas Urs Sommer reflects on the question of what it really means when everybody’s appealing to values, all the time – the question, fundamentally, of what values actually are. Values explores both of these points, arriving at two intriguing suggestions: Maybe what we call values are just a set of elaborate fictions. And maybe those fictions serve some very important purposes.