Every so often I look around the rest of the internet and find terms I use, but used in different ways by different people.
“Pursuit-of-value” is a domain name I’ve had since approximately 2008 (at the latest, and with dashes deliberately as they are valid, Rick & Morty’s “story-train.com” dig notwithstanding…ouch). The original purpose was for me to vent out ideas that I might find useful about my understanding of praxeology, or the study of human action.
I’ve seen others use the same terms for other things. So at times I need to assert that I still find the purpose of human action is the pursuit of value.
Value is the “importance” of some identifiable goal by a human consciousness, and exists in primarily an ordinal relationship with every other identifiable goal that particular consciousness recognizes as valuable enough to take action to achieve. Until the “first” (or primary ordinal) value is achieved man is compelled to act to achieve that .
Identification of the importance and thus ordinality ones values counts as actions of primary importance. One not only acts to achieve value, but one acts to set one’s values in an achievable order; to the best of one’s abilities in the context of one’s situation, awareness and existence.
Learning to identify one’s values, learning to set them is ordinally a predecessor to any other action mankind can perform.
Human action is the pursuit of values, even down to the selection of values to pursue.
Pursuit of Value 