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- Title: Emotional Awareness in Scheler's Axiology and the Queerness-Argument (Report)
- Author : Appraisal
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
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- Size : 203 KB
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In the contemporary meta-ethical debate, the motivational 'force' of values and moral properties has constituted one of the central fields of problems. In particular, J. L. Mackie's (1917-1981) famous queerness-argument (1) has been a central focus of much discussion. This argument has often been put forward as a devastating problem for any formulation of value realism: If moral properties existed, they would be ontologically 'queer'--weird, mystical--in that they would have an intrinsically action motivating force which, so it is claimed, is irreconcilable with a desacralized modern world view. Furthermore, knowledge of such entities would be epistemologically queer since it would require that moral beings have a mystical faculty of knowledge, a special kind of moral intuition. In the following, I will argue that the core of Mackie's worry dissolve if we take seriously the importance of a careful phenomenology of value--and an appreciation of elements in the work of Max Scheler (1874-1928) can help us seeing this. Scheler is perhaps best known for his theory of the existence of an a priori hierarchy of values. In my view, this particular part of his axiological thought is not the part which is of greatest systematic relevance today, and it is not to be the focus in the following. We shall instead touch on some basic phenomenological studies in Scheler that can perhaps disclose important points about the pre-reflective experience of value and our emotional life which any adequate theory of the nature of value and ethics must take into account. The prime aim in the following is to draw attention to basic points about axiological meaning in connection with our emotions. To be more specific, I will discuss the relevance of elements in Scheler's phenomenological analysis of emotional experience of value as they are presented in Scheler's magnum opus Der Formalismus in der Ethik und die materiale Wertethik (2); and in light of basic phenomenological points reconstructed from this work I shall critically address any worry raised in the queerness-argument.
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