Two Axiological Illnesses. (April 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Râmbu, Nicolae
• Is Part Of: Journal of human values. Volume 21:Number 1(2015:Apr.)
• Page Start: 64
• Page End: 71
• Publication Date: 2015-04
• Subjects: Idiocracy -- tyranny of the values -- axiological blindness -- fanaticism -- nihilism; Management -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Periodicals; Social values -- Periodicals; Business ethics -- Periodicals; 303.4
• DOI: 10.1177/0971685815580669
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0971-6858

Abstract

Axioclasm, or the tendency to destroy all values in the name of only one that eventually wins the heart of a certain person, like a demon, is the central idea contained in this essay. Unlike all other axiological illnesses, axiological blindness ( Wertblindheit ) and tyranny of the values transform the affected person by turning them into an axioclast or, in other words, a destroyer of values on behalf of the one that suddenly becomes a simulacrum of divinity.