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It is designated by the term of Axiology to that branch of the Philosophy that deals with and focuses on the study of the nature of values and value judgments. Although of course the philosophy and everything that is discipline studies date from many centuries ago, the name of this part of study is relatively new, since it was used for the first time only at the beginning of the last century.

The axiology, then studies both negative and positive values, analyzing its first principles, which are those that will allow decide worth or not of something or someone, and then formulate the fundamentals of judgment both in the case of being positive and negative.

On the other hand, axiology together with deontology will be the main foundation and pillar on which the Ethics.

As long as and already entering into what constitutes its object of study, for axiology, a value will be that quality that will allow us to weigh the ethical value and aesthetic of things, that is to say, plain and simple it is about that special quality that makes things or people are esteemed in a negative or negative sense. positive

You can distinguish between different classes of values. Objective values ​​are those that happen to be themselves the purpose, like being the good, the truth and the beauty. On the other hand and in opposition to these, we find the subjective values ​​that will be those that represent a means to reach this or that end and that most of the time they are followed by a wish of a personal nature.

In addition, and one step below, we can distinguish between fixed values, that is, those that nevertheless remain and the dynamic ones, which are those that are not subject to remain, but are changing as we go Changing.

Likewise, values ​​can be distinguished according to the importance they hold for us and then be conceptualized according to a hierarchy pre-established in which some will have a higher position than others.