The Conceptual Framework

Abstract

The concept of value is linked to the notion of something being good. But what is goodness? Goodness does not seem to be an objective fact since different people find different things good. Goodness appears to be an internal response. Philosophers generally agree that goodness cannot be satisfactorily defined with words—goodness is a prime or primitive term, something we know from direct subjective experience. There are other things like this. Something being funny, or being green in color, or the sense one should do something—there are many things that we know about, but cannot define to someone who does not already know about them.