The Structure of Value

by Robert S. Hartman

Book Overview

Hartman's revolutionary book introduces formal orderly thinking into value theory. It identifies three basic kinds of value, intrinsic goods (e.g., people as ends in themselves), extrinsic goods (e.g., things and actions as means to ends), and systemic goods (conceptual values). All good things share a common formal or structural pattern: they fulfill the ideal standards or "concepts" that we apply to them. Thus, this theory is called "formal axiology."...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610978420
• ISBN13: 9781610978422
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"