Experience and Value - A Phenomenological Approach to the Dilemma of Normative Supervenience

This paper focuses on value, which I shall provisionally define as the
experiential aspect of normativity. That there is an experiential aspect of
normativity is a main claim of classical phenomenology. This paper aims to
provide some evidence for this claim. I shall first discuss the current state of
knowledge concerning normative properties and the dilemma of normative
supervenience (Part 1). We shall then devote ourselves to an exercise in visual and
emotional exploration, accompanied by a phenomenological analysis of value(s),
which will allow us to spell out what appears to be wrong with all the competing
proposed non-phenomenological solutions to the dilemma (Part 2). I shall finally
outline a phenomenological way out of the dilemma, thereby indicating the path to
a full-fledged phenomenological axiology.