Experiencing Values in the Flow of Events: A Phenomenological Approach to Relational Values

Christophe Gilliand

Environmental Values, 2021, vol. 30, issue 6, 715-736

Abstract: This paper explores the notion of ‘relational values’ from a phenomenological point of view. In the first place, it stresses that in order to make full sense of relational values, we need to approach them through a relational ontology that surpasses dualistic descriptions of the world structured around the subject and the object. With this aim, the paper turns to ecophenomenology's attempt to apprehend values from a first-person perspective embedded in the lifeworld, where our entanglement with other beings is not a theoretical construction but a palpable reality. Overall, the article's main purpose is to show that, in our direct and raw experience, values do not appear as subjective judgments or as objective properties but as events in which we participate alongside other human and non-human beings.

Keywords: Relational values; relational ontology; ecophenomenology; Claude Romano; events; ethics of participation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.3197/096327121X16141642287692

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