Outlines of a Value Typology Based on Decision Theorys Social Motives :: Philosophy

Values and their Collisions Outlines of a Value Typology Based on Decision Theorys Social MotivesABSTRACT both(prenominal)(prenominal) years ago, I outlined a project to delineate ideologic and scientific elements of our k presentlyledge about values. I began by mattering the classifiable configurations of values, their typical collisions, and some typical world-view-related standpoints as theoretical background. I now present the theoretical premises of my inquiry, the applied methods, and some of the results. I behave tried to support the choice of variables used, make sensible the reliable limits of the findings, and punctuate some interconnections as well as some collisions amid clean-living and/or ideological standpoints. Among values, and apart from the aesthetic (artistic) values, we can distinguish between ideological and incorrupt ones. The ideological values (or social-political ones) concern and/or spoil the coexistence of larger groups of humans, while those con sidered virtuous ones are realized in the prompt interpersonal transactionhips. But there are weighty arguments suggesting their treatment in common or in parallel(i) In the case of some systems of thought, the separation of moral values from the social political ones seems quite staged (e.g. Aristotelian, Christian, utilitarian, liberal)(ii) Recent psychological research in the direction inaugurated by Piaget and Kohlberg supports the dead reckoning that the lower phases of the moral development are constant across societies and value-system groups, while in the superior phases there is a culture-(respectively, society-) related differentiation. higher(prenominal) level moral attitudes seem significantly related to the accepted political values (Kurt Bergling, 1981 (1) ). (2) (iii) In the case of many historical systems of thought (philosophies) the moral world-view is axiologically more elaborated than the political one. (The conceptions about the ontology of values, values social functions and effects or values acquirement are much more evident in the former.) Further, the moral inquiry is more nuanced in the elaboration of typologies and it is more concerned with the relations between cognitive sphere and values than the social-political thinking is.III would distinguish 3 levels in approaching the moral phenomena(i) Moral (of object-language)The level of valuations (good-wrong, just-unjust etc.) and norms, including laic knowledge about rewards and punishments, or about value legitimising and the metaphysical nature of good and evil. This can be considered the everyday moral moral sense of the society, the object of anthropological, sociological, historical descriptions.(ii) Ethical (of meta-language)The level of categories introduced by ethics to study and to compare the specificities of moral systems, of the auto-reflection and self-defending argumentation of value hierarchies.