Abstract

This is a comprehensive investigation of the foundations of value theory. It is a survey of some two or three thousand appraisive concepts in the English language, partly "in order to show that ethics and value theory are but stunted growths if they try to confine their attention merely to the vocabulary of general or ultimate appraisives: good, bad, right, wrong". The book contains three parts. Part I deals with Procedures of Appraisal and Judgment, i.e., with the capacities of the mind to respond or react appetitively or emotionally to the environment. Five topics are examined: enjoyment, response, appraisal, enactment, and moral involvement.