Philosophy › Section H · Value theory › Topic H.2
Basic questions about values
Health, friendship, money, knowledge, justice: we value many things, and they often pull in different directions. This topic asks which things are valued for their own sake, whether all values reduce to one, and what to do when values cannot be measured against each other.
In this topic
- What it is to value something
- Intrinsic and instrumental value
- Worked example: tracing a value chain
- Monism
- Pluralism
- Incommensurability
- Conflicts in other traditions
- Worked example: a hard choice
- Pluralism is not relativism
- Judging relativism
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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