Abstract

I expand on the position-taking view (PT) by offering an account of the axiological awareness on which emotional feelings are based as responses to value. In doing so, my aim is to elaborate on a central aspect of PT which can seem controversial in light of a common concern about the possibility of value awareness. I initially introduce the view of pre-emotional value awareness which is defended by proponents of PT in the early phenomenological tradition. Rather than adopting their conception of this awareness as a sui generis type of acquaintance with value, I propose that the intuition driving this view can more plausibly be substantiated by thinking of this awareness as a specific form of aspect perception which is based on the concerns of the experiencing subject. This account invokes a familiar type of experience that is widely recognized as a genuine psychological phenomenon. I finally defend this proposal against two objections.