@article {1140, title = {Hodnoty a vysvětlení}, journal = {Organon F}, volume = {20}, number = {1}, year = {2013}, pages = {196-205}, type = {State}, abstract = {The article analyses the terms {\textquotedblleft}value{\textquotedblright} and {\textquotedblleft}explanation{\textquotedblright} as used in ethical studies, offers a critique of this usage and an alternative, pragmatically oriented semantics of ethical terms, based on the illocutionary act of judging. The term {\textquotedblleft}value{\textquotedblright} is supposed to describe a super-predicate common to both ethical and aesthetical value judgments. However, the traditional over-reliance on the copulative predication and the idea that language describes reality lead to a one-sided view of ethical terms, and a construction of sentences like {\textquotedblleft}The intentional torturing of little children is morally wrong{\textquotedblright}, whose pragmatic function, and consequently meaning, is very unclear. If, on the other hand, we take as our paradigm the act of judging (in the literal sense of a judge presiding over a case) we will be able to sketch a new, lighter ethics which, admittedly, falls short of the traditional demands placed on this discipline, but whose semantics is closer to the actual words used in expressing approval and disapproval.}, keywords = {ethics, explanation, judgment, pragmatics, semantics, value}, url = {http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/doc/organon/prilohy/2013/1/196-205.pdf}, author = {Tome{\v c}ek, Marek} }