A Book on Ethics and the Philosophy of Values

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Book I/ The Confusion Between Ethics and Axiology   >read

I/ A Necessary Distinction  >read
1/ The Concept of the Good >
2/ The Concept of Finality >
3/ The Concept of Quality >
4/ Conclusion: The Notion of Value as Irreducible to All Others >

II/ The Consequences of Confusing Ethics and Axiology  >read
1/ The Oblivion of Value >
2/ The Misfortune of the Term 'Axiology' >
3/ The Disappearance, Then Reappearance, of the Concept of Value in Moore's Work >

III/ The Impossibility of Founding Morality  >read
1/ It Is Not a Question of Finding Out What Our Duty Is >
2/ It Is Not Looking for What Makes Us Happy >
3/ It Is Not Looking for the Origin of Morality >
4/ Conclusion >


Book II/ Prolegomena to Axiology   >read

I/ Provisional Definition of Value  >read

II/ The Axiological Panorama of Our Time  >read

III/ About the State of Mind Requested to Understand the Problem of Values  >read
1/ Understanding the Lack of a Foundation for Values: The Failure of Usual Methods >
2/ Review of Extreme Axiological Positions >
3/ The Epoché of Values >
4/ A First Essential Rule of the Method of Axiology >

IV/ Reconfiguration of the Field of Knowledge  >read
1/ Questioning the Legitimacy of Aesthetics and the Concept of Beauty >
2/ The Relations Between Axiology and Other Disciplines in General >
3/ The Relations Between Axiology and Ontology >
4/ Axiology: A Practical or Theoretical Science? >


Book III/ A Method for Axiology   >read

I/ Where to Find the Value of Things?  >read
A/ In the Object?  >
B/ In the Subject?  >

II/ Love, as the Key Concept of Axiology  >read
1/ Reconstruction of the Concept of Love  >
2/ What Is Contempt?  >
3/ Love, as a Problem  >
4/ A Critical Look at Subjectivism and Eclecticism  >

III/ Deduction of the Method of Axiology from the Concept of Love
A/ Fundamental Redefinition of the Concept of Value and Formulation of the Method
B/ Practical Application of the Analytical Method
1/ The Principle of Hierarchy
2/ The Principle of Universalisation
3/ Three Examples of a Concrete Determination of a Value
4/ Conclusion: About the Analytical Method