General Theory of Value: Its Meaning and Basic Principles Construed in Terms of Interest

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Longmans, Green, 1926 - 702 страници
Talks about values vaguely with intent to go through some particulars and problems in mismatched values and benefits. Discusses the values that have the appropriate set of attributes. Mentions the trends of orientation, psychological definition, perception, solidarity of the society, social integration, origin and change, and value's criticism.

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TENDENCY AS A DIRECTIONAL or Culminating Process
65
THE DEsirable as Capable of BeING DESIRED
71
VALUE AS THE OBJECT OF QUALIFIED
81
THE ABSOLUTE WILL AS A NECESSARY PRESUPPOSITION
88
THE AUTHORITATIVE OR OBLIGATORY WILL
99
INTERESTED RESPONSE IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
103
VALUE AS ANY OBJECT OF ANY INTEREST
115
REPLY TO THE CHARGE OF RELATIVISM
127
78 The Determining Tendency
201
81 Summary and Definition
208
POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE INTERESTS
230
MODES OF INTEREST Continued
242
REAL AND PLAYFUL INTEREST
251
AGGRESSIVE AND SUBMISSIVE INTEREST
259
MODES OF INTEREST Concluded
270
ANALYSIS OF COGNITION
306
THE DIFFERENCE Between Interest and COGNITION
313
MODES OF COGNITION
322
THE RÔLE OF COGNITION IN INTEREST
344
INTEREST AS OBJECT OF COGNITION
357
COMPLEXES AND INTEGRATIONS
369
INTERESTS MEDIATED BY INTEREST
374
When the Act of Predication is an Interest
376
154 INTERESTS MEDIATED BY JUDGMENTS OF INTEREST
378
155 COMPATIBLE AND INCOMPATIBLE INTERESTS
381
THE RATIONALIZATION OR JUSTIFICATION OF INTEREST
383
157 The Function of Rationalization
385
Reason Held to be Inefficacious
387
Rationalization as Selfdeceptive and Mendacious
389
Ex post facto Reasoning
393
Group Professions
394
THE UNITY OF SOCIETY
400
Importance of the Problem
401
THE SOCIALSUBSTANCE THEORY
402
Primitive Society and Primitive Sociology
406
THE SOCIALFORCE THEORY
410
The Individual Cause Insufficient
412
The Individual Cause Superfluous
414
The Individual Cause Modified and Deflected
415
SOCIETY AS A COLLECTIVE UNIT
417
171 Society a Class
418
172 Society as a Whole
420
173 Society an Individual
421
Society a System
423
Society a Compound
426
IS SOCIETY A PERSON?
431
Personality as Intermediation of Interests
433
The Pluralistic and Federated Society
452
Corporate Personality
455
Social Personification and Social Idolatry
457
MODES OF SOCIAL INTEGRATION
460
Recent Sociological Controversy
463
Durkheim versus Tarde
465
Reconciliation of Opposing Views
467
Limitation of Society to the Category of Interest
471
COMMUNITY OF INTEREST 475
475
Common Existent Objects
476
196 Social Function of Symbols
480
Collective Representations
483
198 Common Objectives 486
486
MODES OF SOCIAL INTEGRATION Con tinued
488
200 Interest as Object of Interest
491
201 Reciprocal Interest
495
202 THE MUTUAL INTERESt of One and Many
498
COMMUNITY MEDIATED BY MUTUALITY 50r 203 The Conception of Imitation
501
204 Imitation as Communication
503
Imitation as Expression
504
The Mediating Subject as Datum
505
The Mediating Subject as Objective
507
208 Society as Confirmation
508
209 MUTUALITY MEDIATED BY COMMUNITY
509
THE SOCIETY OF BENEVOLENT COOPERATION 512
512
The Principle of Cooperation
514
Cooperation and Benevolence
517
THE GENESIS AND MUTATION OF INTEREST
520
214 The Question of Control
522
Diffusion and Generalization of Existing Interests
533
INTEREST
544
INTERACTION of Interests in the Same SubjeCT
564
Circumscription and Division of the Topic
570
233 Compatibility and Mood
576
The Failure of Integration
582
LARGESCALE MUTATIONS
589
THE CRITIQUE OF VALUE
595
EXAMINATION OF TRADITIONAL VIEWS
601
THE COMMENSURABILITY OF VALUES
626
THE STANDARD OF PREFERENCE
633
THE STANDARD OF INCLUSIVENESS
645
The Three Standards and Their Order of Application
656
The Independence of Persons
674
The Structure and Scale of the AllBenevolent Will
682
POSTSCRIPT
693
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