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This paper addresses Rolston’s claim that values may exist without the beholder; expressing such opinion he opposes the prevailing contemporary views. It also shows Rolston’s attempt to work out a provisional intuitive scale of values characteristic of particular organisms. The concept of systemic values is also presented and discussed. It appears that such values are ultimately life-generating processes, and as such definitely deserve man’s respect. Such phenomena constitute the essence of holistic environmental philosophy as developed by Holmes Rolston III.
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Pyra, L. (2016). The Naturalistic Axiology of Holmes Rolston III. In: Tymieniecka, AT., Trutty-Coohill, P. (eds) The Cosmos and the Creative Imagination. Analecta Husserliana, vol 119. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21792-5_20
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