02347nam a22003735i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001300153072001600166072002300182072001600205100008200221245010800303250001800411264008500429300003400514336002600548337002600574338003600600347002400636505067900660520040301339650001201742650004101754710003401795773002601829776003601855776003601891856004601927978-3-031-42159-4DE-He21320251030110850.0cr nn 008mamaa231209s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830314215947 a10.1007/978-3-031-42159-42doi 4aBJ1-1725 7aHPQ2bicssc 7aPHI0050002bisacsh 7aQDTQ2thema1 aSommer, Andreas Urs.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aValuesh[electronic resource] :bWhy We Need Them Although They Don’t Exist /cby Andreas Urs Sommer.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer International Publishing :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXII, 159 p.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 a1. Existence Is Overrated. What Is a Value? -- 2. Even More. Where Do Values Come from? And How Many Are There? -- 3. Allure of the Temporary. How Is a Value? -- 4. The Power to Connect, the Power to Relativize. What Do Values Relate To? -- 5. At Home Nowhere and Everywhere. Where and When Are Values (in Use)? -- 6. Excursus I: Values and Human Rights -- 7. The Unstable Recovery Position. How Is a Value Positioned? -- 8. Miracles of Motivation and Guarantors of Paralysis. What Do Values Have? What Do They Do? -- 9. An Unruly Victim Tamed. What Things Are Done to Values? -- 10. Excursus II: Values in the Political Soap Opera -- 11. Against Prescriptions. Why Values?.  aIn 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. 0aEthics.14aMoral Philosophy and Applied Ethics.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303142158708iPrinted edition:z978303142160040uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42159-4