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[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / a. Nature of value ]

Full Idea

Dancy distinguishes three parts of the supervenience base of values: 1) those which ground the value ('resultance base'); 2) those which enable the ground to make something good ('enabling conditions'); 3) those which intensify or diminish value.

Gist of Idea

The base for values has grounds, catalysts and intensifiers

Source

report of Jonathan Dancy (Ethics without Principles [2004], p. 170-181) by Francesco Orsi - Value Theory 5.2

Book Ref

Orsi,Francesco: 'Value Theory' [Bloomsbury 2015], p.84

A Reaction

I really like and admire this. Dancy has focused on what really matters about values (and hence about the whole of ethics), and begun the work of getting a bit of clarity and increased understanding.

The 24 ideas with the same theme [what is desirability or worth in something?]:

4370 For Aristotle 'good' means purpose, and value is real but relational [Achtenberg on Aristotle]
20846 Prime values apply to the life in agreement; useful values apply to the natural life [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
20160 Kant focuses exclusively on human values, and neglects cultural and personal values [Kekes on Kant]
24149 Values need a perspective, of preserving some aspect of life [Nietzsche]
5920 Value is held to be either a quality, or a relation (usually between a thing and a mind) [Ross]
5923 The arguments for value being an objective or a relation fail, so it appears to be a quality [Ross]
20762 There are no values to justify us, and no excuses [Sartre]
19646 Values don't accumulate; they are ruthlessly replaced [Cioran]
21749 Altruistic values concern other persons, and ceremonial values concern practices [Quine]
18681 The base for values has grounds, catalysts and intensifiers [Dancy,J, by Orsi]
20150 There are far more values than we can pursue, so they are optional possibilities [Kekes]
20156 We are bound to regret some values we never aspired to [Kekes]
20158 Innumerable values arise for us, from our humanity, our culture, and our individuality [Kekes]
20159 Cultural values are interpretations of humanity, conduct, institutions, and evaluations [Kekes]
20161 The big value problems are evil (humanity), disenchantment (cultures), and boredom (individuals) [Kekes]
23741 Is valuing something a matter of believing or a matter of desiring? [Smith,M]
18666 Value-maker concepts (such as courageous or elegant) simultaneously describe and evaluate [Orsi]
18667 The '-able' concepts (like enviable) say this thing deserves a particular response [Orsi]
18679 Things are only valuable if something makes it valuable, and we can ask for the reason [Orsi]
18682 A complex value is not just the sum of the values of the parts [Orsi]
18683 Trichotomy Thesis: comparable values must be better, worse or the same [Orsi]
18685 Final value is favoured for its own sake, and personal value for someone's sake [Orsi]
18686 The Fitting Attitude view says values are fitting or reasonable, and values are just byproducts [Orsi]
24169 We can treat value as a verb; we value something when we positively engage with it [Cochrane]