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The Problem of Value

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Extract

Few current problems have become so confused as that of Value. Its increasing importance in all departments of modern thought has made it the focal point of so many diverse aspects that the result seems a mass of formidable contradictions. But these can never be overcome by attempting to simplify the situation, which must on the contrary be recognized from the outset as presenting an extreme complexity that will inevitably advance pan passu with the advancing complexities of human experience. If, then, simplification is impossible, the only alternative is to attempt to grasp the salient features and present these in their true relation, in the same way that an invading army seizes the principal bases of hostile territory.

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1928

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References

page 44 note 1 Cf. the treatment of this subject by Whitehead, Russell, and Bradley.

page 45 note 1 Whether objects can exist independently of an infinite or divine mind is a further problem.

page 47 note 1 I do not imply any absolute distinction between these; but that is another problem.