101 Philosophy Problems by Cohen Martin;

101 Philosophy Problems by Cohen Martin;

Author:Cohen, Martin;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor and Francis


Problems 29–30: Problems and More Problems Buying Stamps and Potatoes

The value of things is often artificially separated into a ‘hard’ economic or monetary value and a more shifting and unstable moral (or judgemental) value. Artificially, because economic values are concealed moral and aesthetic judgements. None the less, the illusion remains that the price, say of potatoes, is fairly fixed, whereas the price of a stamp may fluctuate because of the vagaries of fashion; the value of something important like a chimpanzee, or even a human being, is complexly indeterminate!



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