Dissolving facts from values is misleading both in theory and in life.

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Dr. Yvonne Förster ist Professorin an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg am Institut für Philosophie und Kunstwissenschaften und an der Shanxi University, Taiyuan (China).

Human subjectivity has been revealed to be an ecological one, the brain to be a relational organ, human becoming to be a dynamic line in a world without objects, and perception to be conceptual. Given these conditions: How does the perception of values work? Are values ‘in-between’?

The theme of this volume is the question of value-perception. It is discussed from different philosophical, psychiatric, theological, and anthropological perspectives. The thesis that unites all the papers is the recognition that we live in a relational, dynamic world, in which we primarily perceive, and that to dissolve values from facts is fundamentally misleading, both in theory as in life. It opens with basic questions and observations, then critical opinions and objections come into play, after which the outline of a larger theory of value perception is presented, and at the end some concrete examples from material practices are drawn.