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  2. Value (social sciences and philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    The six "core virtues" listed by Peterson and Seligman have been found to be useful, for example, in the structuring of values in their "Values in Action" or VAI. [142] One of the similarities between virtue theory and fitting-attitude theory is that they both approach the subject of value through an emphasis on the agent. [143]

  3. Value (philosophy and social sciences) - Wikipedia

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    Values tend to influence attitudes and behavior and these types include ethical/moral values, doctrinal/ideological (religious, political) values, social values, and aesthetic values. It is debated whether some values that are not clearly physiologically determined, such as altruism , are intrinsic , and whether some, such as acquisitiveness ...

  4. Ephor - Wikipedia

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    Since political and economic decisions were made by majority vote, Sparta's policy could change quickly, when the vote of one ephor changed. For example, in 403 BCE, Pausanias convinced three of the ephors to send an army to Attica, a complete reversal of the policy of Lysander. [18]

  5. Value theory - Wikipedia

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    Value theory is the interdisciplinary and systematic study of values.Also called axiology, it examines the nature, sources, and types of values.Primarily a branch of philosophy and social sciences, it also has interdisciplinary applications in fields such as economics, sociology, anthropology, and psychology.

  6. Eduard Spranger - Wikipedia

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    Spranger contributed to the pedagogy of personality theory, in his book Types of Men. [4] His value attitudes were: The Theoretical, whose dominant interest is the discovery of truth; The Economic, who is interested in what is useful; The Aesthetic, whose highest value is form and harmony; The Social, whose highest value is love of people

  7. Value (economics) - Wikipedia

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    Which value theory holds true divides economic thinkers, and is the base for many socioeconomic and political beliefs. [11] Silvio Gesell denied value theory in economics. He thought that value theory is useless and prevents economics from becoming science and that a currency administration guided by value theory is doomed to sterility and ...

  8. Social Choice and Individual Values - Wikipedia

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    Following Abram Bergson, whose formulation of a social welfare function launched ordinalist welfare economics, [1] Arrow avoids locating a social good as independent of individual values. Rather, social values inhere in actions from social-decision rules (hypostatized as constitutional conditions) using individual values as input. Then 'social ...

  9. Lycurgus - Wikipedia

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    Lycurgus (/ l aɪ ˈ k ɜːr ɡ ə s /; Ancient Greek: Λυκοῦργος Lykourgos) was the legendary lawgiver of Sparta, credited with the formation of its eunomia (' good order '), [1] involving political, economic, and social reforms to produce a military-oriented Spartan society in accordance with the Delphic oracle. The Spartans in the ...