My sense is that this is just language coopting useful ideas in favor of useful sounding ideas. The term ‘value’ is quantitative and objective, as it is used say, in economics or finance. It’s not inherently vauge, and goals can be comeasured as valued higher or lower. I imagine this comeasurable sense was shared in early philosophical use as well, as in debates about whether liberty or equality is the higher value.
If the language in vouge changed to ‘priorities’, I doubt it would take long before mission statements said thing like “prioritizing strengthened community through live art”. This seems no more lucid or operationalizable to me.
My sense is that this is just language coopting useful ideas in favor of useful sounding ideas. The term ‘value’ is quantitative and objective, as it is used say, in economics or finance. It’s not inherently vauge, and goals can be comeasured as valued higher or lower. I imagine this comeasurable sense was shared in early philosophical use as well, as in debates about whether liberty or equality is the higher value.
If the language in vouge changed to ‘priorities’, I doubt it would take long before mission statements said thing like “prioritizing strengthened community through live art”. This seems no more lucid or operationalizable to me.