The Being of Values
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https://doi.org/10.12797/RM.02.2022.12.01Keywords:
values, objectivism, subjectivism, relationismAbstract
In this paper I present three main approaches to the problem of the being of values by discussing objectivism, subjectivism and relationism referring to historical positions. I conclude that axiological discourse, when reduced to the horizontal dimension, leads to the relativisation of all values, the process of blurring the boundaries to their eventual annihilation.
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