3.3 What Mary didn’t know about values (The hard problem of value 3)

Dries, Manuel (2015). 3.3 What Mary didn’t know about values (The hard problem of value 3). Nietzsche-Studien, 44(1)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nietzstu-2015-0125

Abstract

This article answers some criticisms raised against How hard is it to create values? and offers a further formulation of the hard problem of value. Section 1 addresses the objection that Nietzsche’s criterion of life is too vague to serve as a useful value standard. Section 2 expands on the important idea of appreciating the difference among value perspectives. Sections 3 and 4 present the “hard problem of value” as a challenge for Nietzschean value agonism and value nihilism respectively. Section 5 offers a further formulation of the “hard problem of value”: a thought experiment about Mary, an expert, anti-realist value creator, whose values may or may not lack some qualities, analogous to Mary, the colour scientist of the “knowledge argument”.

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