Horizons of Value Conceptions

Axiological Discourses for the 21st Century

Autor: Agnes K. Koos, Kenneth Keulman

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Horizons is a critical inventory of value-related thinking, demonstrating that the mind has the abil...

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Autor

Agnes K. Koos, Kenneth Keulman

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2007

Pagini

262

EAN

9780761839439

ISBN

0761839437

Enbook ID

04914197

Editura

University Press of America

Greutate

404

Dimensiuni

154 x 233 x 21

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Horizons is a critical inventory of value-related thinking, demonstrating that the mind has the ability to profile a distinctive circumstance in diverse ways. Readers are first invited to a historical inquiry into typical configurations of values, their collisions, and the worldviews that drive them. They are then introduced to the epistemologies employed by the social sciences, so that they are better able to gauge the potential of these disciplines for coming to terms with values. Axiology is portrayed as a field that has broken free from its neo-Kantian roots, benefiting from challenging new conceptual frames based in documents with global reach-mainly the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. After scrutiny of what various sociological models claim about values and the way in which empirical surveys approach them, Horizons reaffirms the assumption that social life and its dynamics condition the fate of values. Yet, for the sake of more accurate accounts, research should consider to a greater extent social stratification, and pressing macrosocial problems such as environmental protection, sustainable development, and attainment of some form of global equity. Social sciences' limitations modulate their ability to serve as an unequivocal guide for value choices. These limitations are a problem because of the significance of the process of dialogue and deliberation in value-related fields. Rather than advancing the allegedly universal characteristics of any one culture, in a world consisting of many civilizations, the imperative is to acknowledge pluralism and discern what is held in common.

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