Q&A: Leibowitz and Values
Leibowitz and Values
Question
To Rabbi Michael Abraham,
First, an apology: you asked not to ask questions at long intervals, but it takes me time to reflect on things and find sources.
The discussion below is not about what is correct, but about Leibowitz’s view:
You claimed that Leibowitz essentially agreed with the intuitionist approach, but as a positivist he could not see that. That is, when Leibowitz argued that a certain thing was a value in his eyes, his intention was that intuitively he saw it as the good. I found a quotation, which I heard him say in a recording: “Values do not exist in themselves; values are things that a person sees as values, and this seeing is an expression of the human volitional faculty. It is something that he wants, or wants to exist,” and Agassi adds, “not in the sense of appetite.”
In my opinion, there is a contradiction here to your position, and Leibowitz saw values only as what a person wants. In your view, Leibowitz removed ethics from philosophy.
Answer
What is this doing here? Is this a continuation of something else that already began in the past? Please go back and thread it there.
Discussion on Answer
Then please continue it there.
This is about my comment here
https://mikyab.net/%D7%9E%D7%94%D7%99-%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%94-%D7%98%D7%95%D7%A8-155/#comment-15620