210

VALUATION

VALUATION. 1. The act of valuing an object or state of affairs ; 2. the value or worth attributed to the object in valuing it. See also VALU E APPERCEPTION. VALUE. 1. The activity of apprehending an object or state of affairs as valuable, that is, taking something to be pleasing or painful, likeable or dislikable, good or bad; 2. the object apprehended in a value apperception . See also VALUATION. VALUE APPERCEPTION (Wertnehmung). Taking something as valuable. H usserl uses the term We rtne hm ung analo go usly to Wa h rn e h m u n g ( perception ). In perception and the belief-modality that belongs to it, the subject takes the object to exist in a determinate manner and believes that taking to be true. Hence, the subject takes S as p as true. Similarly, in a value apperception , the subject takes and believes S to be valuable; the subject takes Sp as v . This formalized way of stating the objects of perception and value apperception reveals the important founding relation between them. Husserl claims both that values (that is, valued objects) are constituted in feeling -acts or emotions and that this feeling-act (and the value sense it constitutes) are founded on a presentation (and the cognitive sense it constitutes). In the example, therefore, there is a underlying presentation that constitutes the sense S as p and founded upon this is the value apperception constituting the sense Sp as v . The value attribute is founded on the descriptive property available to a pure cognition , but the value attribute itself is not available to pure cognition. It is disclosed by a feeling or emotion. The value apperception is a unified act ; it does not arise separately from the objectifying presentation. T he founding relationship, however, is one-sided such that the objectifying presentation can occur separately from the feeling or emotion that constitutes the value apperception. See also CONSTITUTION; FOUNDATION; FOUNDED MOMENT; FOUNDING MOMENT; OBJECTIFYING ACT. VALUE ATTRIBUTE. T he goodness (or badness) of a valued (or disvalued) object . The attribute will be specified according to the type of value involved (aesthetic, utilitarian, moral), the underlying descriptive features o f the o bject that make the object valuable, and the kind of feeling or emotion involved in the valuation of the object. See also VALUE APPERCEPTION; VALUE JUDGMENT. VALUE JUDGM ENT. The explicit articulation of the value attribute of an object as belonging to the object. The value judgment is founded upon