The document discusses the relationship between values and descriptions as analyzed by Husserl, particularly focusing on whether values require facts to exist and if descriptions hinge on values. It explores the components of intentional acts, including quality, matter, and representative content, along with the concepts of axiological and descriptive intentionality. The work emphasizes the distinction between noetic and noematic aspects of consciousness in terms of subjective judgment and objective validity.

1. VALUES,
COLORS AND
DESCRIPTIONS
Susi Ferrarello, Ph.D
Loyola University-Rome

2. TWO GOALS
THE ESSENCE OF THE VALUE
THE ESSENCE OF THE
DESCRIPTION

3. KEY QUESTIONS
1) Do values need facts in order
to exist and be expressed?
2) Do descriptions need values
in order to be descriptions?

4. Husserl’s Books
Logical Investigations (1901)
Analyses Concerning Active and
Passive Synthesis (1920)

5. STRUCTURE OF THE TALK
MENTAL OBJECT
STATIC AND
GENETIC
ANALYSIS OF
DESCRITPTION
AXIOLOGICAL AND
DESCRIPTIVE
INTENTIONALITY

6. INTENTIONAL ESSENCE
“Each concretely complete…act
has three components: its quality,
its matter and its representative
content” (Husserl, 2001, p. 312).

7. AXIOLOGICAL INTENTIONS
Apriori Emotional Teleological
Colored Essences that overlay the
facts (LU V, §§ 10-15)

8. DESCRIPTION
Objectifying reflection on the
interpretive matter (LU, V § 12B)

9. VALIDATION
“The noetic (subjective) Yes and
No…arises from taking a position
specifically as judging. As with every
mode of consciousness, we have a
noematic (objective) correlate. Here, of
course, this correlate is the noematic
valid and invalid arising in the objective
sense” (Husserl, 2001, 134).