A book on ethics and philosophy of values

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Welcome to This Website Dedicated to Axiology, Ethics & Philosophy of Values

What is axiology?

Is it identical to ethics or the philosophy of values?

What is a value? What is the problem of values?
What really has value?

Is our era relativistic? Is there a crisis of values?
How do we respond to a nihilist who argues that 'nothing has value'?

Axiology 4.0

These are some of the questions that are raised throughout the book Axiology 4.0 (or "Proposal for a New Axiology").

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Other questions explored in this book include:

What defines a hierarchy? Is there a universal hierarchy?

Should the human sciences do without value judgements?
Can we oppose fact and value?

Was Descartes’s doubt truly radical?
Do we genuinely find aesthetic pleasure in beauty?
Did anthropocentrism vanish with the rise of Copernican theory?

Do we understand what has value through intuition, or is there a scientific approach to values? What is formal axiology?
Can we bridge the gap between subjectivism and objectivism in morality?

This reflection involves examining the thoughts of authors such as Aristotle, Brentano, Scheler, Husserl, Moore, Nietzsche, Durkheim, Lyotard, Sartre, Cioran, Marcus Aurelius, Leibniz, Sade, Descartes, Lessing, Hobbes, Kant, and Hegel...