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Axiology (from Greek
Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
 , axia, "value, worth"; and , -logia
-logy

-logy is a suffix in English language, found in words originally adapted from Ancient Greek words ending in -????a . The earliest English examples were anglicizations of the French language -logie, which was in turn inherited from the Latin language -logia....
) is the study of quality or value
Value (ethics)

In ethics, value is a property of object , including physical objects as well as abstract objects , representing their degree of importance.Ethic value denotes something's degree of importance, with the aim of determining what action or life is best to do or live, or at least attempt to describe the value of different actions....
. It is often taken to include ethics
Ethics

Ethics is a word for a philosophy that encompasses proper conduct and good living. It is significantly broader than the common conception of ethics as the analyzing of right and wrong....
 and aesthetics
Aesthetics

Aesthetics or esthetics is commonly known as the study of senses or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste ....
 — philosophical fields that depend crucially on notions of value — and sometimes it is held to lay the groundwork for these fields, and thus to be similar to value theory
Value theory

Value theory encompasses a range of approaches to understanding how, why, and to what degree humans should or do value things, whether the thing is a person, idea, object, or anything else....
 and meta-ethics
Meta-ethics

In philosophy, meta-ethics is the branch of ethics that seeks to understand the nature of ethical property , and ethical statements, attitudes, and judgments....
. The term was first used in the early 20th century by Paul Lapie and E. Von Hartmann.

One area in which research continues to be pursued is so-called formal axiology, or the attempt to lay out principles regarding value with mathematical rigor.

The term is also used sometimes for economic value.








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Axiology (from Greek
Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
 , axia, "value, worth"; and , -logia
-logy

-logy is a suffix in English language, found in words originally adapted from Ancient Greek words ending in -????a . The earliest English examples were anglicizations of the French language -logie, which was in turn inherited from the Latin language -logia....
) is the study of quality or value
Value (ethics)

In ethics, value is a property of object , including physical objects as well as abstract objects , representing their degree of importance.Ethic value denotes something's degree of importance, with the aim of determining what action or life is best to do or live, or at least attempt to describe the value of different actions....
. It is often taken to include ethics
Ethics

Ethics is a word for a philosophy that encompasses proper conduct and good living. It is significantly broader than the common conception of ethics as the analyzing of right and wrong....
 and aesthetics
Aesthetics

Aesthetics or esthetics is commonly known as the study of senses or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste ....
 — philosophical fields that depend crucially on notions of value — and sometimes it is held to lay the groundwork for these fields, and thus to be similar to value theory
Value theory

Value theory encompasses a range of approaches to understanding how, why, and to what degree humans should or do value things, whether the thing is a person, idea, object, or anything else....
 and meta-ethics
Meta-ethics

In philosophy, meta-ethics is the branch of ethics that seeks to understand the nature of ethical property , and ethical statements, attitudes, and judgments....
. The term was first used in the early 20th century by Paul Lapie and E. Von Hartmann.

One area in which research continues to be pursued is so-called formal axiology, or the attempt to lay out principles regarding value with mathematical rigor.

The term is also used sometimes for economic value.

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  • Value theory
    Value theory

    Value theory encompasses a range of approaches to understanding how, why, and to what degree humans should or do value things, whether the thing is a person, idea, object, or anything else....
  • Noesis
    Noesis

    Noesis is a Greek word meaning understanding as "the ability to sense or know something, immediately".In Phenomenology , it is an act of consciousness....
  • Russian philosophy
    Russian philosophy

    Russian philosophy is a broad field, little known to most non-Russians, dominated by religious and Humanismic figures such as Vladimir Solovyov and social or political philosophers such as Vladimir Lenin....
  • N.O. Lossky