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S: MIT – https://web.mit.edu/course/2/2.95j/readings/introethics_pt1.html (last access: 14 January 2025); NIH – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18471654/ (last access: 14 January 2025).
N: 1. – value (n): c. 1300, “price equal to the intrinsic worth of a thing;” from Old French value “worth, price, moral worth; standing, reputation” (13c.), noun use of fem. past participle of valoir “be worth,” from Latin valere “be strong, be well; be of value, be worth” (from PIE root *wal- “to be strong”).
It is attested by late 14c. as “useful properties; degree to which something is useful or estimable; non-material worth;” also “appreciation, regard, relative status or esteem of a thing.”
In music, relative length or duration of a tone; in painting, relation of one part to another or the rest with regard to light and shade.
The meaning “social principle” is attested by 1915 in reference to sociology (see values). Value judgment (1889) is a loan-translation of German Werturteil (from Wert “value,” cognate with worth, + Urteil “judgment,” cognate with ordeal).
– judgment (n): mid-13c., jugement, “action of trying at law, trial,” also “capacity for making decisions,” from Old French jugement “legal judgment; diagnosis; the Last Judgment” (11c.), from jugier “to judge” (see judge (v.)).
From late 13c. as “penalty imposed by a court;” early 14c. as “any authoritative decision, verdict in a court case.” From late 14c. in reference to the final trial of the human race in a future state (Judgment Day attested from late 14c.). Also from c. 1300 as “opinion.” Sense of “discernment” is first recorded 1530s. By 1610s as “a divine allotment, event regarded as an expression of divine displeasure.”
2. The first known use of value judgment was in 1889.
- A judgment assigning a value (such as good or bad) to something.
3. Ethics and Morals; Sociology (General): value judgment, value judgement.
- A judgment of what is desirable or worth while. Value judgments are essential in all human activities except where they lead to rigidities and dogmatism.
S: 1. Etymonline – https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=value+judgment (last access: 14 January 2025). 2. MW – https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/value%20judgment (last access: 14 January 2025). 3. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=jugement+de+valeur&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 14 January 2025).
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S: TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=jugement+de+valeur&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 14 January 2025)
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