Explication of the methodological difficulties of modern axiology

Abstract

The authors focus on the group of methodological difficulties of axiology, due to its specific multifaceted subject. One of the major difficulties in the study of values is that there is no unity in the understanding of the essence of value in science. Axiological theories that exist within different philosophical and cultural philosophy of teachings represent a diversity of opinions, conclusions, decisions and methodological approaches. There are several different approaches of consideration of the category of “value”, covering different spheres of social life in axiology, in values the elements of the sub-categories and subcategories are distinguished. Methodological pluralism in interpretation and typology of values are analyzing. Theoretical foundations of axiology are formed as a response to two major challenges: existential status of values and their relationship to the facts of reality. The response to these challenges in axiology was pluralization of ways of philosophizing, which is expressed in the generation of a variety of axiologically oriented traditions, based on its own research methodology and leading to the existence of a number of methodological inconsistencies. According to the results of the analysis, the authors concluded that the difficulties of methodological nature, reflecting the diversity of its subject matter, are manifested in the increasing expansion of the research field of axiology, in the unresolved range of the fundamental problems in the axiology in the existing diversity of theories, values and definitions of the concept of “value” itself and etc., this methodological situation requires a rethinking of the methodology and axiology.