Values and Ontology: Problems and Perspectives

300 Pages·2009·12.598 MB·English

by  Beatrice Centi (editor), Wolfgang Huemer (editor)

Beatrice Centi, Wolfgang Huemer (Eds.)
Values and Ontology
Problems and Perspectives
P H E N O M E N O L O G Y & M I N D

Herausgegeben von / Edited by

Arkadiusz Chrudzimski • Wolfgang Huemer

Band 13 / Volume 13
Beatrice Centi, Wolfgang Huemer (Eds.)

Values and Ontology

Problems and Perspectives
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Foreword

Raising the question concerning the relation between values and ontology
is tantamount to inquiring whether values are real, whether perception or
experiences of values are possible, as well as to exploring the question of
how and to what extent value objectivism and objective validity are tenable
in ethics and aesthetics. These issues, which offer interesting problems for
historical and conceptual analysis, have already been dealt with by early
phenomenologists like Brentano, Meinong, Ehrenfels, exponents of Ge-
staltpsychology like Köhler, Husserl, Hartmann and French phenomenolo-
gists like Merleau-Ponty. Ethics, as well as aesthetics, must contend with
ontological problems in order to justify the possibility of value judgements
and their motivational force in the various contexts in which practical rea-
son is involved; these are issues concerning the constitution of the object
and of subjectivity itself. The essays collected in this volume discuss one
of the most crucial issues of contemporary debate – which has recently
witnessed a rebirth of interest in ontology – and aim to investigate the
relations interlinking ontology, ethics, and aesthetics.
The editors wish to thank their colleagues from foreign and Italian Uni-
versities for contributing to this project promoted by the Department of
Philosophy at the University of Parma in the context of a national research
project.

Beatrice Centi and Wolfgang Huemer

Table of Contents

Introduction ................................................................................................ 7
BEATRICE CENTI

Practical Necessity: The Subjective Experience ...................................... 23
CARLA BAGNOLI

Relations, Quasi-Assumptions and Material Aprioris:
Reality and Values in Brentano, Meinong, Husserl ................................. 45
BEATRICE CENTI

Value Facts and Value Experiences
in Early Phenomenology ........................................................................ 105
MARIA E. REICHER

Facts, Values, Emotions, and Perception ............................................... 137
FIORENZA TOCCAFONDI

A Glimpse into the Sphere of Ideal Being:
The Ontological Status of Values .......................................................... 155
ROBERTO POLI

Brentano, Marty, and Meinong on Emotions and Values ...................... 171
ARKADIUSZ CHRUDZIMSKI

How is the Pair of Contraries “Activity and Passivity”
Envisaged in Husserlian Phenomenology? ............................................ 191
MARIA VILLELA-PETIT
Ethical and Ontological Dimensions of Merleau-Ponty’s
Phenomenology of Perception................................................................. 213
MARA MELETTI BERTOLINI

Experiencing Art
Austrian Aesthetics between Psychology and Psychologism ................ 267
WOLFGANG HUEMER

List of Contributors.............................................................................. 289

Index of Names .................................................................................... 293