02679nam 22005295 450 991077026840332120250807130605.0978303142158730314215829783031421594(electronic bk.)303142159010.1007/978-3-031-42159-4(MiAaPQ)EBC31009345(Au-PeEL)EBL31009345(CKB)29337981400041(DE-He213)978-3-031-42159-4(OCoLC)1414459013(EXLCZ)992933798140004120231209d2024 u| 0engurcn#||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierValues Why We Need Them Although They Don’t Exist /by Andreas Urs Sommer1st ed. 2024.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2024.1 online resource (162 pages)Print version: Sommer, Andreas Urs Values Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2024 9783031421587 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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?.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.EthicsMoral Philosophy and Applied EthicsEthics.Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics.170Sommer Andreas Urs530722Richards PaulGW5XEGW5XEOCLKBYDXBOOK9910770268403321Values4259485UNINA