Metaphysics of Axiological Realism

Abstract

The paper presents the main assumptions of the metaphysics of axiological realism of Tadeusz Czeżowski, one of the eminent representatives of the Lvov-Warsaw School. Czeżowski’s major thesis is that values are not properties of any kind, but they are transcendental concepts in the understanding of Duns Scotus (and not that of Thomas Aquinas). One of the consequences of such a view is that his realism has a form of non-naturalism. Czeżowski’s position is not completely clear and elaborated in all details; it is possible, for some reasons discussed in the text, to regard values as a kind of non-natural states of affairs which are correlates of relevant axiological propositions.