The phenomenon of values in the historical and modern vision.

Abstract

The article offers a version of understanding va lues as elements of culture. As a fundamental idea, Adam S mith accepted the classical theory of labor value, but with a significant generalization of this idea from the economic context as a special case to the general theoretical level of social philoso phy, in which values are understood as products of both pr actical and intellec tual activity. The principle of social egocentrism and interpretation of the main categories of values , v ersions of the philosophy of history as a process in which the values of culture arise and are modified are also proposed are a lso considered.alue, product of labor, person, thing