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Values

Here are entered works on moral and esthetic values, etc. Works on the economic theory of value are entered under Value.

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• Aesthetics
• Knowledge, Theory of
• Metaphysics
• Psychology

• Ethics

• Values -- Philippines
• Values -- Poland
• Values -- Research
• Values -- United States
• Dignity
• Social values

• Axiology
• Worth
• Value (ethics and social sciences)

• The Bases of Values in a Time of Change: Chinese and Western (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1999), ed. by Kirti Bunchua, Liu Fangtong, Yu Xuanmeng, and Yu Xujin (multiple formats at Google)
• Variations in Value Orientations (Evanston, IL and Elmsford, NY: Row, Peterson and Co., 1961), by Florence Rockwood Kluckhohn and Fred L. Strodtbeck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Happiness is the Wrong Metric: A Liberal Communitarian Response to Populism (Cham: SpringerOpen, c2018), by Amitai Etzioni, contrib. by Oren Etzioni (PDF and Epub with commentary at springer.com)
• The Philosophy of Value (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1957), by De Witt H. Parker, contrib. by William K. Frankena (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Social Context and Values: Perspectives of the Americas, ed. by George F. McLean and Olinto Pegoraro (PDF at crvp.org)
• Persons and Values (Boston: Boston University Press, 1952), by Edgar Sheffield Brightman (page images at HathiTrust)
• À Chacun sa Quête: Essais sur les Nouveaux Visages de la Transcendance (in French; Sainte-Foy, QC: Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2000), ed. by Yves Boisvert and Lawrence Olivier (PDF files at Project MUSE)
• Language, Values and the Slovak Nation (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1994), ed. by Tibor Pichler and Jana Gapariková (multiple formats at Google)
• Culture, Spirituality, and Economic Development: Opening a Dialogue, by William F. Ryan (PDF and HTML with commentary at idrc.ca)
• How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text and audio)
• Sadhana: The Realisation of Life (New York: Macmillan, 1916), by Rabindranath Tagore (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Sadhana: The Realisation of Life, by Rabindranath Tagore (Gutenberg text and audio)

• Values in Philippine Culture and Education (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1994), ed. by Manuel B. Dy (multiple formats at Google)

• Values in the Polish Cultural Tradition (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c2002), ed. by Leon Dyczewski (multiple formats at Google)

• Research on Culture and Values: Intersection of Universities, Churches and Nations, ed. by George F. McLean (PDF at crvp.org)

• America's Social Revolution (c2001), by Melanie Phillips (PDF at Civitas)
• Legitimate Differences: Interpretation in the Abortion Controversy and Other Public Debates (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), by Georgia Warnke (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Diversity and Philanthropy at African American Museums (London and New York: Routledge, c2019), by Patricia Ann Banks (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• Carry On -- Whither? (Indianapolis, IN: National Enquirer, 1919), by George Eames Barstow (page images here at Penn)

• Human Dignity and Bioethics: Essays Commissioned by the President's Council on Bioethics (2008), ed. by Adam Schulman and Thomas W. Merrill (HTML and PDF at Georgetown)
• Human Dignity: Values and Justice, ed. by Miloslav Bednár (multiple formats at Google)

• What Matters Now (2009), ed. by Seth Godin (PDF with commentary at typepad.com)
• Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology (1998), by J. M. Balkin (PDF files with commentary at culturalsoftware.com)
• "Head I Win, Tails You Lose!" Truth and Integrity in Public Life (ACSJC occasional paper #5; North Sydney, NSW: Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, ca. 1990), by Tom Ryan (PDF in Australia)
• Public Policy: Why Ethics Matters (2010), ed. by Jonathan Boston, Andrew Bradstock, and David L. Eng
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML and PDF with commentary at ANU E Press
• Gaining Ground: Tailoring Social Programs to American Values (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Charles Lockhart (HTML at UC Press)
• Social Choice and Individual Values (Cowles Foundation monograph #12, second edition; New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1963), by Kenneth J. Arrow (PDF at Yale)
• Social Choice and Individual Values (Cowles Foundation monograph #12, first edition; New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1951), by Kenneth J. Arrow (PDF at Yale)

• The Sanitary Arts: Aesthetic Culture and the Victorian Cleanliness Campaigns (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Eileen Cleere (PDF with commentary at Ohio State)

• Moral, Legal and Political Values in Romanian Culture, ed. by Mihaela Czobor-Lupp and J. Stefan Lupp (multiple formats at Google; may be labeled differently on cover page)

• Interests and Values: The Spirit of Venture in a Time of Change, ed. by Tibor Pichler and Jana Gaspariková (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Man As He Is Not: or, Hermsprong (18th volume of a "British Novelists" set; London: F. C. and J. Rivington; et al.. 1810), by Robert Bage, contrib. by Mrs. Barbauld (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Time of Roses (Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Co., n.d.), by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), by Eric Zolov (HTML at UC Press)

• The Traffic in Praise: Pindar and the Poetics of Social Economy (originally published 1991; electronic edition c2013), by Leslie Kurke (Javascript-dependent page images at escholarship.org)
• Homicide in American Fiction, 1798-1860: A Study in Social Values (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, c1957), by David Brion Davis (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Public Policy: Why Ethics Matters (2010), ed. by Jonathan Boston, Andrew Bradstock, and David L. Eng
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML and PDF with commentary at ANU E Press
• Agent-Centered Morality: An Aristotelian Alternative to Kantian Internalism (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), by George W. Harris (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Ethics at the Crossroads (2 volumes; Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1996), ed. by George F. McLean
  • Volume I (Normative Ethics and Objective Reason): PDF at crvp.org
  • Volume II (Personalist Ethics and Human Subjectivity): PDF at crvp.org
• The Foundations of Morality (centennial edition; Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: Foundation for Economic Education, c1994), by Henry Hazlitt (PDF and Epub with commentary at mises.org)
• Creative Transformation: A Practical Guide for Maximizing Creativity (c1991), by John David Garcia (HTML at see.org)
• Morality and Utility (originally published 1967; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Jan Narveson (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Metaethics From a First Person Standpoint: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2016), by Catherine Wilson (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Will as Commitment and Resolve: An Existential Account of Creativity, Love, Virtue, and Happiness (New York: Fordham University Press, 2007), by John J. Davenport (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• For an Ontology of Morals: A Critique of Contemporary Ethical Theory (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1971), by Henry Babcock Veatch (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
• Ethical Theory: The Problems of Normative and Critical Ethics (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1959), by Richard B. Brandt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Toward an Ethics and Etiquette for Electronic Mail (1985), by Norman Z. Shapiro and Robert H. Anderson (HTML and PDF with commentary at rand.org)
• Beyond Good and Evil (based on version published in Complete Works edition of 1909-1913), by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, trans. by Helen Zimmern (Gutenberg text and audio)
• Beyond Good and Evil, by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, trans. by Ian Johnston
  • Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications
  • HTML with commentary in Canada
• The Buried Temple (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1920), by Maurice Maeterlinck, trans. by Alfred Sutro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy, Delivered at the Royal Institution, in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806 (New York: Harper and Bros., 1856), by Sydney Smith
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Elements of Moral Philosophy: Analytical, Synthetical, and Practical, by Hubbard Winslow (page images at MOA)
• The Elements of Moral Science (fortieth thousand; Boston: Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, 1850), by Francis Wayland
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Elements of Morality, Including Polity, by William Whewell (page images at MOA)
• An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (based on the 1777 edition), by David Hume (Gutenberg text)
• Essays on the Principles of Morality, and on the Private and Political Rights and Obligations of Mankind (fourth edition; London: C. Gilpin; Edinburgh: Scott and Benson, 1842), by Jonathan Dymond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ethica: In Meetkundigen Trant Uiteengezet, Vertaald, Ingeleid en Toegelicht (in Dutch), by Benedictus de Spinoza, ed. by Nico van Suchtelen (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Ethics (New York: H. Holt and Co.; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1909), by John Dewey and James Hayden Tufts (Gutenberg text)
• Ethics (originally published 1912), by G. E. Moore (HTML at fair-use.org)
• The Ethics, by Benedictus de Spinoza, trans. by R. H. M. Elwes (Gutenberg text)
• Ethics and Modern Thought: A Theory of Their Relations (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1913), by Rudolf Eucken, trans. by Margaret von Seydewitz (Gutenberg text)
• The Ethics of Aristotle, by Aristotle, ed. by J. A. Smith (Gutenberg text)
• The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Public Benefits; With an Essay on Charity and Charity-Schools (third edition, with added material; London: J. Tonson, 1724), by Bernard Mandeville (multiple formats at Google)
• First Principles of Ethics, by James Tift Champlin (page images at MOA)
• A Handbook of Ethical Theory, by George Stuart Fullerton (Gutenberg text)
• The Improvement of the Moral Qualities: An Ethical Treatise of the Eleventh Century, by Ibn Gabirol, trans. by Stephen S. Wise (PDF at seforimonline.org)
• An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, by Jeremy Bentham
  • HTML at Texas
  • PDF at McMaster
• Lectures on Moral Science, by Mark Hopkins (page images at MOA)
• The Life of Pythagoras, with His Symbols and Golden Verses; Together With the Life of Hierocles, and His Commentaries Upon the Verses (London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1707), ed. by André Dacier, trans. by Nicholas Rowe, contrib. by of Alexandria Hierocles
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Living Issues in Ethics, by Richard T. Nolan and Frank G. Kirkpatrick (PDF files at Wayback Machine)
• Logical Conditions of a Scientific Treatment of Morality, by John Dewey (HTML at Brock)
• Man's Moral Nature: An Essay, by Richard Maurice Bucke (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Manual of Moral Philosophy, by Andrew P. Peabody (page images at MOA)
• The Methods of Ethics, by Henry Sidgwick (HTML at Texas)
• Moral Philosophy, by Jacques Maritain (HTML at Notre Dame)
• Moral Philosophy: Ethics, Deontology and Natural Law (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1918), by Joseph Rickaby (HTML at Notre Dame)
• Moral Philosophy: Including Theoretical and Practical Ethics, by Joseph Haven (page images at MOA)
• Moral Philosophy Through the Ages (prepublication version), by James Fieser (HTML at utm.edu)
• Moral Science: A Compendium of Ethics, by Alexander Bain (page images at MOA)
• Moral Values: A Study of the Principles of Conduct (New York, H. Holt and company, 1925), by Walter Goodnow Everett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Natural Law: An Essay in Ethics (London: Trübner and Co., 1877), by E. J. Simcox (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Natural Law: An Essay in Ethics (second edition; London: Trübner and Co., 1878), by E. J. Simcox (page images at HathiTrust)
• On Human Nature, by Arthur Schopenhauer, ed. by T. Bailey Saunders (Gutenberg text)
• On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemical Tract, by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, trans. by Ian Johnston (HTML in Canada)
• The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas (second edition, 2 volumes), by Edward Westermarck
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Principia Ethica (originally published 1903), by G. E. Moore (HTML at fair-use.org)
• Problems of Conduct: An Introductory Survey of Ethics (1914), by Durant Drake (Gutenberg text)
• Puritanism (Chicago, C. H. Kerr and Co., c1911), by Clarence Meily
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Social Rights and Duties: Addresses to Ethical Societies (2 volumes; London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co.; New York: Macmillan and Co., 1896), by Leslie Stephen
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
• Studies New and Old of Ethical and Social Subjects (Boston: W. V. Spencer, 1866), by Frances Power Cobbe
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA
• A System of Moral Science, by Laurens P. Hickok (page images at MOA)
• The Theory of Moral Sentiments, by Adam Smith (text files at McMaster)
• The Theory of Moral Sentiments (sixth edition; London: A. Millar, 1790), by Adam Smith, ed. by D. D. Raphael and A. L. Macfie (HTML at econlib.org)
• The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, by Marcus Aurelius, ed. by Edwin Ginn, trans. by George Long (Gutenberg text)
• The Ways of Life: A Study in Ethics (1920), by Stephen Ward (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Emotional Trials: The Moral Dilemmas of Women Criminal Defense Attorneys (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2004), by Cynthia Siemsen (multiple formats at Northeastern and archive.org)
• The Subject and Other Subjects: On Ethical, Aesthetic, and Political Identity (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Tobin Siebers (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Brief Text-Book of Moral Philosophy (New York: Schwartz, Kirwin, and Fauss, c1895), by Charles Coppens (HTML at Notre Dame)
• A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories and Fancies, Original and Selected (second edition, corrected; London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories and Fancies, Original and Selected : Part I, Ethics and Character, Part II, Literature and Art (London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1854), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Dance of Life (1923), by Havelock Ellis (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• The Dawn of Day (New York: Macmillan, 1911), by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, trans. by J. M. Kennedy (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• The Dawn of Day (London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1924), by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, trans. by J. M. Kennedy (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Faith and Morals: I. Faith as Ritschl Defined It; II. The Moral Law as Understood in Romanism and Protestantism (London: Wiliams and Norgate; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904), by Wilhelm Herrmann, trans. by Donald Matheson and Robert W. Stewart (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Father Payne (1915), by Arthur Christopher Benson (Gutenberg text)
• Lectures and Essays (third edition, two volumes; London and New York: Macmillan, 1901), by William Kingdon Clifford, ed. by Leslie Stephen and Frederick Pollock
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: PDF at archive.org
• Lectures on the True, the Beautiful, and the Good (with an appendix on French art; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1854), by Victor Cousin, trans. by O. W. Wight
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Lectures on the True, the Beautiful, and the Good (with an appendix on French art; New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1871), by Victor Cousin, trans. by O. W. Wight
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Outlines of Moral Science, by Archibald Alexander (page images at MOA)
• Philosophical Studies (London and New York: Macmillan, 1905), by David G. Ritchie, ed. by Robert Latta (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Philosophy of the Active and Moral Powers of Man (revised, with omissions and additions, 7th edition; Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Co., 1859), by Dugald Stewart, ed. by James Walker
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Spinoza's Short Treatise on God, Man, and His Well-Being, Translated and Edited, With an Introduction and Commentary and a Life of Spinoza (London: A. and C. Black, 1910), by Benedictus de Spinoza, ed. by A. Wolf (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Birth of Tragedy: or, Hellenism and Pessimism (from the Complete Works v1), by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, ed. by Oscar Levy, trans. by William A. Haussmann
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Birth of Tragedy Out of the Spirit of Music, by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, trans. by Ian Johnston
  • HTML in Canada
  • Javascript-dependent page images with commentary at Richer Resources Publications
• Das Verhältnis der Eudemischen zur Nikomachischen Ethik (dissertation in German; 1912), by Ernst Kapp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Enquirer (new edition; Edinburgh: J. Anderson, 1823), by William Godwin (page images at Google)
• The Ethics of Liberty (1998 edition), by Murray N. Rothbard, contrib. by Hans-Hermann Hoppe (PDF and partial HTML at mises.org)
• A Treatise of Human Nature, by David Hume
  • HTML at McMaster
  • Gutenberg text
• A Treatise of Human Nature (Oxford, UK: At the Clarendon Press, 1896), by David Hume, ed. by L. A. Selby-Bigge
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring (11 volumes in 22; Edinburgh: W. Tait; et al., 1838-1843), by Jeremy Bentham, ed. by John Bowring (page images at HathiTrust)
• As Ruinas (in Portuguese; Lisbon: Typ. de D. Marques Leaõ, 1822), by C.-F. Volney, trans. by Pedro Cyriaco da Silva
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• As Ruinas (in Portuguese; Lisbon: Nova Impressão Silviana, 1834), by C.-F. Volney, trans. by Pedro Cyriaco da Silva
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Philosophy of Right, by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, trans. by S. W. Dyde (PDF at McMaster)
• The Ruins: or a Survey of the Revolutions of Empires (Albany: S. Shaw, 1822), by C.-F. Volney
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Ruins: or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires; and The Law of Nature (New York: Twentieth Century Pub. Co., 1890), by C.-F. Volney, ed. by Peter Eckler, contrib. by Pierre-Antoine-Noël-Bruno Daru (Gutenberg text)
• Volney's Ruins: or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires (Boston: C. Gaylord, 1840), by C.-F. Volney, contrib. by Pierre-Antoine-Noël-Bruno Daru
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Volney's Ruins: or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires (Boston: J. P. Mendum, 1869), by C.-F. Volney, contrib. by Pierre-Antoine-Noël-Bruno Daru
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

More items available under broader and related terms at left.