Axiology

Axiology
Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology [1]
Axiology (from Greek , axi, "value, worth"; and -, -logos) is the philosophical study of value. It is either
the collective term for ethics and aesthetics[2]philosophical fields that depend crucially on notions of valueor the
foundation for these fields, and thus similar to value theory and meta-ethics. The term was first used by Paul Lapie,
in 1902,[3] and Eduard von Hartmann, in 1908.[4][5]
Axiology studies mainly two kinds of values: ethics and aesthetics. Ethics investigates the concepts of "right" and
"good" in individual and social conduct. Aesthetics studies the concepts of "beauty" and "harmony." Formal
axiology, the attempt to lay out principles regarding value with mathematical rigor, is exemplified by Robert S.
Hartman's Science of Value. Studies of both kinds are found in Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of
Culture and Axiology.

References
[1] http:/ / www. international-journal-of-axiology. net/
[2] Random House Unabridged Dictionary Entry on Axiology. (http:/ / dictionary. reference. com/ browse/ axiology)
[5] Samuel L. Hart. AxiologyTheory of Values (http:/ / www. jstor. org/ pss/ 2105883). Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

Further reading
Hartman, Robert S. (1967). The Structure of Value. USI Press. 384 pages.
Findlay, J. N. (1970). Axiological Ethics. New York: Macmillan. ISBN0-333-00269-5. 100 pages.
Rescher, Nicholas (2005). Value Matters: Studies in Axiology. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag. ISBN3-937202-67-6.
140 pages.

External links
Value Theory (http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/value-theory) entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology (http://www.pdcnet.org/cultura)

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