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Values

Why We Need Them Although They Don’t Exist

Andreas Urs Sommer

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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Allgemeines, Lexika

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In his book, Andreas Urs Sommer reflects on the question of what it really means when everybody’s appealing to values, all the time – the question, fundamentally, of what values actually are. Values explores both of these points, arriving at two intriguing suggestions: Maybe what we call values are just a set of elaborate fictions. And maybe those fictions serve some very important purposes.

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