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Axiology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Axiology (from Greek , axiā , "value, worth"; and , -logia|-logia ) is the study of quality or value. It is often taken to include ethics and aesthetics — philosophical fields that depend crucial...
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International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology is the only journal in Romania and, as far as we know, one of the few in Europe, that is centered upon the study of values as a fundament for culture.
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logos= "science"), which means "study of value." Although questions of value are as old is philosophy itself, "axiology" refers primarily to the writings of the Austro-German phenomenologists such as Franz Brentano, Alexius Meinong, Max Scheler, and Nicolai Hartmann.
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I had to look up axiology because despite 30 years of reading and studying philosophy I had never seen that word for Ethics before. Ethics and secular education have had a problematic relationship thanks to the attempts of fundamentalists to undermine it's use as a substitute for teaching morality.
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The fundamental project of axiology is the attempt to discover, properly formulate, and defend principles determining the intrinsic values of things including lives, outcomes, and possible worlds.
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In a branch of philosophy known as axiology (the theory of values), there is a distinction that may help explain the reasons behind the public's interest in health care and medicine -- and the relationship to people's values and fears.
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