What is success? How is success measured? Willa Cather provides us two sets of values.To some people, success is measured in terms of money. To some success means choosing one’s own life and realizing one’s own valu...What is success? How is success measured? Willa Cather provides us two sets of values.To some people, success is measured in terms of money. To some success means choosing one’s own life and realizing one’s own values. In the novel The Sculptor’s Funeral Cather portrays an artist, who breaks the bondage of the old environment, and becomes a successful sculptor. However, he is regarded as a failure by his local people because the values by which they judge success are not the same.展开更多
The critical analysis examines the concept of value in C.S.Peirce’s philosophical writings,distinguishing between value as(1)worth,(2)meaning,(3)significance,(4)semiotic value,(5)in the mathematical sense,(6)money va...The critical analysis examines the concept of value in C.S.Peirce’s philosophical writings,distinguishing between value as(1)worth,(2)meaning,(3)significance,(4)semiotic value,(5)in the mathematical sense,(6)money value,and(7)value by other names.The focus is on value in the sense of Peirce’s three normative sciences aesthetics,ethics,and logic.The values associated with them are detailed in their phenomenological contexts and with respect to a supreme value,the summum bonum.Peirce’s objections against utilitarian conceptions of value in the philosophy of his century and his conception of scientific research as a value in itself are the author’s final topic.展开更多
文摘What is success? How is success measured? Willa Cather provides us two sets of values.To some people, success is measured in terms of money. To some success means choosing one’s own life and realizing one’s own values. In the novel The Sculptor’s Funeral Cather portrays an artist, who breaks the bondage of the old environment, and becomes a successful sculptor. However, he is regarded as a failure by his local people because the values by which they judge success are not the same.
文摘The critical analysis examines the concept of value in C.S.Peirce’s philosophical writings,distinguishing between value as(1)worth,(2)meaning,(3)significance,(4)semiotic value,(5)in the mathematical sense,(6)money value,and(7)value by other names.The focus is on value in the sense of Peirce’s three normative sciences aesthetics,ethics,and logic.The values associated with them are detailed in their phenomenological contexts and with respect to a supreme value,the summum bonum.Peirce’s objections against utilitarian conceptions of value in the philosophy of his century and his conception of scientific research as a value in itself are the author’s final topic.
