Values
Why We Need Them Although They Don’t Exist
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Beschreibung
In his book, Andreas Urs Sommer reflects on the question of what it really means when everybody’s appealing to values, all the time – the question, fundamentally, of what values actually are. Values explores both of these points, arriving at two intriguing suggestions: Maybe what we call values are just a set of elaborate fictions. And maybe those fictions serve some very important purposes.
In his book, Andreas Urs Sommer reflects on the question of what it really means when everybody’s appealing to values, all the time – the question, fundamentally, of what values actually are. Values explores both of these points, arriving at two intriguing suggestions: Maybe what we call values are just a set of elaborate fictions. And maybe those fictions serve some very important purposes.
Reflects on the question of what it really means when everybody’s appealing to values Suggests that values are just a set of elaborate fictions Comes to the conclusion that maybe those fictions serve some very important purposes
Autor*in
Andreas Urs Sommer
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