I’ve just read A Simple Case for Studying Morals after reading this and I’m still not quite certain what is meant by values here. In fairness, I haven’t read all the other things you’ve linked. If it’s there, then sorry for my quibble As I read it, it sometimes seems to be used with ‘that which is commonly desired/cared about by people writ large (sometimes it seems individualised as well)’, ‘a feeling of endorsement’ or just synonymous with ‘moral’.
Now, I understand that you claim that human values are hard to grasp and as such I’m not asking for the complete necessary and sufficient conditions here. I’m just not sure what it is you’re aiming at.
Writing about the nature of values is on my pending stack of things to write about.
I introduced concrete instances in “A Simple Case for Studying Morals”, as well as a few motivating situations, but I have explicitly not given a definition yet.
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I’ve just read A Simple Case for Studying Morals after reading this and I’m still not quite certain what is meant by values here. In fairness, I haven’t read all the other things you’ve linked. If it’s there, then sorry for my quibble As I read it, it sometimes seems to be used with ‘that which is commonly desired/cared about by people writ large (sometimes it seems individualised as well)’, ‘a feeling of endorsement’ or just synonymous with ‘moral’.
Now, I understand that you claim that human values are hard to grasp and as such I’m not asking for the complete necessary and sufficient conditions here. I’m just not sure what it is you’re aiming at.
Nope, this is a good comment.
Writing about the nature of values is on my pending stack of things to write about.
I introduced concrete instances in “A Simple Case for Studying Morals”, as well as a few motivating situations, but I have explicitly not given a definition yet.