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- The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon
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- Chronology of Martin Heidegger
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- 215. Value (Wert)
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215. - Value (Wert)
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon
- Series page
- The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Using the Lexicon
- Chronology of Martin Heidegger
- Abbreviations for Heidegger’s Works
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- 215. Value (Wert)
- W
- German–English Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Although heidegger sometimes uses the term colloquially, employed in a technical sense “value” (Wert) refers to a property of entities that picks out a standard according to which we assess those entities and orient our activity. For example, beauty is a value in the sense that when we call a landscape “beautiful,” we assess the landscape according to some standard of beauty, and we orient ourselves according to this standard, perhaps by lingering to take in the scenery.
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- The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon , pp. 807 - 810Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021