Perceiving Truth and Value

Interdisciplinary Discussions on Perception as the Foundation of Ethics, Religion, Theologie und Naturwissenschaft /Religion, Theology, and Natural Science 33

Markus Mühling/David Andrew Gilland/Yvonne Förster

Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

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.