Modern Axiology: Some Urgent Problems

Abstract

The paper deals with some of the key problems in the modern philosophy of values, such as the definition of the notion of “value”, the origins of axiology in antiquity, the connection between values and human activity, the instability of borderlines between “what is” and “what is due”, the ambiguity and diversity of expressions describing value, the assessment of any claims to eliminate value statements from humanities and social sciences as unsubstantiated, values and the objectivity of knowledge.