ABSTRACT
Augusto Salazar Bondy was a major 20th-century Peruvian philosopher. During his relatively short life he made significant contributions to phenomenology, the philosophy of domination and liberation, the philosophy of education, metaphilosophy, metaethics, and axiology. He is described as “a true jewel of philosophical lucidity” and as a philosopher who “lived his philosophy to its ultimate consequences”. In Salazar Bondy’s early work, he presents a phenomenological-ontological account of value. He argues that should understand value as the ‘fulfillment of being', and that, by paying attention to cumplimiento del ser and its different modes, can establish a hierarchy of value and the valuable. To understand Salazar Bondy’s early philosophy of value, it will be helpful to briefly introduce his phenomenology of ontology. Salazar Bondy comes to reject much of the account of value later in his career. Nonetheless, his reasons for rejecting it help to clarify his shift toward his mature philosophy of value.
