This study of axiology explores the axiocentricity of being human. Human beings dwell in the realm of value. Values are not simply what persons have; values in large part are what persons are. The mystique of values is analyzed here in terms of their cultural, phenomenological, and ontological status. The relationship between science and values is debated. Values should not be submitted to reductionism. Postmodernism raises new problems for the future of a philosophy of values. Yet, we may direct our hopes toward happiness, universalism, and humanism as inseparable from value-life.
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About the AuthorLudwig Grnberg (12 November 1933 - 8 January 1995) graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Bucharest, Romania in 1955, with a Merit Diploma. He obtained his Doctor's Degree in 1962 and became a Doctor's Degree consultant in 1971. He was a Professor of Philosophy at the Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest.A teacher by vocation, L. Grnberg endeavored to pass on to his students, including doctoral students, some of his own pathos in asking questions and searching for answers, some of his own respect and critical spirit with which he related to the great moments in the history of philosophy, some of his own aspiration toward self-realization, some of his own exactness and imagination with which he would conceive his ideas. Trying to set up a philosophical school in axiology, he was the leader of the Circle of Axiology in Bucharest in an adverse ideological time.L. Grnberg produced a significant number of university textbooks, lectures in philosophy, axiology, the history of philosophy, aesthetics, and general sociology.He was a member of the International Institute of Sociology since 1969, of the American Society for Value Inquiry since 1973, of the World Institute of Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning, since 1980, and of the International Society for Universalism since 1993.In 1972, L. Grnberg received the "Vasile Conta" Award of the Romanian Academy. In 1979, he was the recipient of the Certificate of Merit from the University of Cambridge, England. In 1993, he received the Award of the International Society for Universalism.L. Grnberg's main volumes were published in Romanian and English:Axiology and the Human Condition, 1972.What Is Happiness, 1978.Optiuni filozofice contemporane, 1980 [Contemporary Philosophical Choices].Ontologia umanului, editor, 1989 [Ontology of the Human].He was the author of a number of introductions to and co-editor of various volumes translated into Romanian, among which, Charles Baudelaire, Curiosits esthtiques ["Curiozitati estetice" (1971)], Ren Huyghe, Les puissances de l'image ["Puterea imaginii" (1972)], Pierre Francastel, Peinture et socit ["Pictura si societatea" (1970)], and Michel E. de Montaigne, Essais ["Eseuri" (1984)].L. Grnberg also published over two hundred studies in specialized journals in Romania and abroad, including Analecta Husserliana, edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, The Journal of Value Inquiry, Dialogue and Humanism, and Review of International Sociology.Some of his studies published in volumes include: "Axiological Approaches in Modern Culture" and "Nietzsche and Marx in the Contemporary Axiological Thought," Crisis and Consciousness, ed. Ralph M. Faris (Amsterdam: B. R. Grner Publishing House, 1977); "The Orphic Myth and the Society of Creation," Explorations in Philosophy and Society, ed. Ch. Cunnen, David H. De Grood (Amsterdam: B. R. Grner Publishing House, 1978); "The Future of Art and the Theory of Post-Philosophical Culture," The Future of Art (Lahti, Finland, 1990).The author left behind a multitude of manuscripts on axiology, the history of art, the history of culture, as well as a significant number of essays on varied related themes.The author's major interests were axiology and the ontology of the human. He was fascinated by the subtlety and wisdom of Montaigne and by the modernity of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's concept of the human being. He strongly believed that, today, the issues of value and the ontology of the human could not be pursued without assimilating Kant's criticism. Often he identified himself with the turmoil of existentialism. He would ponder over the virtues and limitations of pragmatic psychoanalysis and analytical philosophy.He would feel at home among his friends at the American Society for Value Inquiry who strive toward a reconstruction of value theory in agreement with the coordinates of the contemporary philosophical thinking and the aspirations of humanity in the twenty-first century.He loved sports, trips in the country, and theater. As a young adult, he tried his hand as a theater director of a number of plays, and later he also contributed the texts of the theater programs for Jean-Paul Sartre, Le Diable et le Bon Dieu [Diavolul si Bunul Dumnezeu], Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie [Menajeria de sticla] for some theater houses in Bucharest.He was a loyal friend, a devoted husband and father.He lived everything with uncommon intensity: a football match, a book, grief, or conversation. He was always impassioned by life as experience more than by life as performance. He experienced them both at utmost intensity.Upon his death, a young doctoral student wrote:A restless flame has recently found its tranquility. Much too early than we could have expected, too early for how much he still had to say and do. Professor Ludwig Grnberg passed on into posterity with his characteristic tenacious anxiousness: in his philosophical and non-philosophical friends.
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