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value judgement — value judgements N COUNT If you make a value judgement about something, you form an opinion about it based on your principles and beliefs and not on facts which can be checked or proved. Social scientists have grown extremely unwilling to make… … English dictionary
Value (economics) — Economics … Wikipedia
value judgement — noun an assessment that reveals more about the values of the person making the assessment than about the reality of what is assessed • Syn: ↑value judgment • Hypernyms: ↑judgment, ↑judgement, ↑assessment • Hyponyms: ↑moralism * * … Useful english dictionary
value judgment — noun an assessment that reveals more about the values of the person making the assessment than about the reality of what is assessed • Syn: ↑value judgement • Hypernyms: ↑judgment, ↑judgement, ↑assessment • Hyponyms: ↑moralism * … Useful english dictionary
Subjective theory of value — The subjective theory of value (or theory of subjective value ) is an economic theory of value that holds that to possess value an object must be both useful and scarce, [Moser, John. The Origins of the Austrian School of Economics, Humane… … Wikipedia
fact/value distinction — (or gap) The presumed distinction between statements of fact, thought of as value free, and statements of value. The distinction is often attributed to Hume, and the separation of fact from value is a platitude of many academic disciplines, and… … Philosophy dictionary
Theory of value (economics) — Theory of value is a generic term which encompasses all the theories within economics that attempt to explain the exchange value or price of goods and services. Key question in economic theory include why goods and services are priced as they are … Wikipedia
Science of morality — The Good Samaritan by François Léon Sicard. The sculpture is based on a story, and one that would be promoted by science of morality. Nature, habits, culture and norms are all pivotal in this empirical pursuit of harmony among living beings.… … Wikipedia
Cultural relativism — Compare moral relativism, aesthetic relativism, social constructionism, and cognitive relativism. Cultural relativism is the principle that an individual human s beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual s… … Wikipedia
Dilthey, Wilhelm — Dilthey Michael Lessnoff INTRODUCTION Wilhelm Dilthey was born in 1833 near Wiesbaden, and thus lived through the period of Bismarck’s creation of a unified German Empire by ‘blood and iron’. These turbulent events, however, scarcely perturbed… … History of philosophy
