Axiology

Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology

Axiology (from Greek ἀξίᾱ, axiā, "value, worth"; and -λόγος, -logos) is the philosophical study of value. It is either the collective term for ethics and aesthetics—philosophical fields that depend crucially on notions of value—or the foundation for these fields, and thus similar to value theory and meta-ethics. The term was first used by Paul Lapie, in 1902, and Eduard von Hartmann, in 1908 .

Axiology studies mainly two kinds of values: ethics and aesthetics. Ethics investigates the concepts of "right" and "good" in individual and social conduct. Aesthetics studies the concepts of "beauty" and "harmony." Formal axiology, the attempt to lay out principles regarding value with mathematical rigor, is exemplified by Robert S. Hartman's Science of Value. Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology http://www.international-journal-of-axiology.net/

See also

• Money
• N.O. Lossky
• Russian philosophy
• Value theory

Further reading

• Hartman, Robert S. (1967). The Structure of Value. USI Press.  384 pages.
• Findlay, J. N. (1970). Axiological Ethics. New York: Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-00269-5.  100 pages.
• Rescher, Nicholas (2005). Value Matters: Studies in Axiology. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag. ISBN 3-937202-67-6.  140 pages.

External links

• Value Theory entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology