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Book I/ The confusion between ethics and axiology >read
I/ A necessary distinction >read
1/ The concept of 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