02676nam a22004575i 4500 978-3-031-42159-4 DE-He213 20251030110850.0 cr nn 008mamaa 231209s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031421594 978-3-031-42159-4 10.1007/978-3-031-42159-4 doi BJ1-1725 HPQ bicssc PHI005000 bisacsh QDTQ thema Sommer, Andreas Urs. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 68074 Values [electronic resource] : Why We Need Them Although They Don’t Exist / by Andreas Urs Sommer. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XII, 159 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 1. 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?. 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. Ethics. 58934 Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics. 66410 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031421587 Printed edition: 9783031421600 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42159-4 ZDB-2-REP ZDB-2-SXPR 56773 56773