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Single Idea 20370
[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / d. Subjective value
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Full Idea
All evaluation is made from a definite perspective: that of the preservation of the individual, a community, a race, a state, a church, a faith, a culture.
Gist of Idea
All evaluation is from some perspective, and aims at survival
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §259)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'The Will to Power', ed/tr. Kaufmann,W /Hollingdate,R [Vintage 1968], p.149
A Reaction
There seems to be a tension over the source of values in Nietzsche. Are they the individualistic visions of an übermensch, or do they arise from the collective pressures of one of these social groups? I suspec that his answer tries to combine them.
The
17 ideas
with the same theme
[values arising from a human perspective]:
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The appraiser's value is what is set by someone experienced in the facts
[Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
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6677
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Imagination creates beauty, justice and happiness, which is the supreme good
[Pascal]
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4845
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We don't want things because they are good; we judge things to be good because we want them
[Spinoza]
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9749
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Our rational choices confer value, arising from the sense that we ourselves are important
[Kant, by Korsgaard]
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7671
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Values are created by human choices, and are not some intrinsic quality, out there
[Kant, by Berlin]
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22023
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Fichte's idea of spontaneity implied that nothing counts unless we give it status
[Fichte, by Pinkard]
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4181
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Every good is essentially relative, for it has its essential nature only in its relation to a desiring will
[Schopenhauer]
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24101
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We always assign values, but we may not value those values
[Nietzsche]
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20370
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All evaluation is from some perspective, and aims at survival
[Nietzsche]
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20354
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The ruling drives of our culture all want to be the highest court of our values
[Nietzsche]
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22228
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Sartre's freedom is not for whimsical action, but taking responsibility for our own values
[Sartre, by Daigle]
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3852
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If values depend on us, freedom is the foundation of all values
[Sartre]
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9232
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It is by caring about things that we infuse the world with importance
[Frankfurt]
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9234
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If you don't care about at least one thing, you can't find reasons to care about anything
[Frankfurt]
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23944
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Emotions are our life force, and the source of most of our values
[Solomon]
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8109
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Aesthetic judgements necessarily require first-hand experience, unlike moral judgements
[Gardner]
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24176
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A person's activities have value when they receive full attention
[Cochrane]
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