The Concepts of Value Foundations of Value Theory
The task of presenting for explicit view the store of appraisive terms our language affords has been undertaken in the conviction that it will be of interest not only to ethics and other philosophical studies but also to various areas of social science an
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FOUNDATIONS OF LANGUAGE SUPPLEMENTARY SERIES
Editors MORRIS HALLE, P. HARTMANN,
Konstanz
K. KUNJUNNI RAJA, BENSON MA TES, J. F. STAAL,
MIT
Madras
Univ. of California
Univ. of California
PIETER A. VERBURG, JOHN W. M. VERHAAR
Groningen
(Secretary), Djakarta
VOLUME 12
KARL ASCHENBRENNER
THE CONCEPTS OF VALUE FOUNDATIONS OF VALUE THEORY
D. REIDEL PUBLISHING COMPANY / DORDRECHT-HOLLAND
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 70-159651 ISBN-13: 978-94-010-3095-3 DOl: 10.1007/978-94-010-3093-9
e-ISBN-13: 978-94-010-3093-9
All Rights Reserved Copyright @ 1971 by D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht-Holland Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1971 No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher
That people who invented the word charity, and used it in a good sense, inculcated more clearly and much more efficaciously the precept be charitable, than any pretended legislator or prophet who should insert such a maxim in his writings. -HUME
1m Ganzen - haltet euch an Worte! Dann geht ihr durch die sichre Pforte Zum Tempel der Gewissheit ein ... Doch ein Begriff muss bei dem Worte sein. - GOETHE,
Faust
PREFACE
The task of presenting for explicit view the store of appraisive terms our language affords has been undertaken in the conviction that it will be of interest not only to ethics and other philosophical studies but also to various areas of social science and linguistics. I have principally sought to do justice to the complexities of this vocabulary, the uses to which it is put, and the capacities its use reflects. I have given little thought to whether the inquiry was philosophical and whether it was being conducted in a philosophical manner. Foremost in my thoughts were the tasks that appeared to need doing, among them these: explicit attention was to be given to the vocabulary by means of which we say we commend,judge, appraise, or evaluate subjects and subject matters in our experience; it was to be segregated from other language at least for the purpose of study; the types of appraisive resources that are at hand in a language such as English were to be classified in some convincing and not too artificial manner; and an empirical standpoint was to be developed for a better view of appraisal, evaluation, and judging within the framework of other ways we have of responding to our surroundings such as appetition and emotion on one side and factual registering and theorizing about states of affairs on the other. Such an inquiry has never been undertaken in quite this manner before. It soon became apparent that it was worth doing at all only if it were carried out in considerable detail. But if one merely wanted to present as large a corpus of appraisive terms as possible, many thousands more could be added to this stock. The reason is that appraisal is precisely the area of man's greatest linguistic creativity: we are never satisfied with the "standard" vocabulary to which this study
