Essay On Value Judgement

Within societies and across societies, people disagree about a million different topics that range from “is this painting pretty?”, to “should Nicaragua build a canal?”, to “is abortion morally right?”. The differences between each human is what makes life interesting. These opinions create debates, and debates are completely healthy, nothing new, and essential if mankind want to go anywhere. One question that has been long discussed among philosophers and non-philosophers is “can we ever make objective judgements about values?”. Many believe that value judgements are completely subjective, therefore their answer would be no. I believe that we can make value judgements that are objectively true, but not always, so throughout this paper I will attempt to

Objectivists think this way, they affirm that values are concepts independent of any subjective consideration and that values exist as an innate property to human beings; regardless on whether the subjects recognize or understand them. There is a spectrum of value judgements because we evaluate things on different kind of scales, whether it is ultimately purely individual (aesthetic), or whether it is something that if is true, it holds for everybody (moral). I explained the types of value judgement because many people confuse moral and aesthetic when answering if we can make value judgements objectively true. It is important to mention one common misconception of subjectivists; for them, values are subjective and moral standards depend on each society or time, so norms are relative. Because of this, they tend to erroneously think that people are free to accept whatever value judgement they please and that all value judgements are equally plausible (Fayettevillestatenc). When it comes to aesthetic value judgements, it is true, reaching an objective truth would be impossible. If you like soda, you can drink whatever kind of soda you like and have your own opinions, you don’t have to share the same tastes