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How does metaphysics affect a person's axiology?
CHICKEN OR EGG? Greetings of PEACE... This question may be considered "bad" or "badly formulated" by extremely analytical thinkers. Better is: "How does one's 'metaphysics…' affect/influence one's axiology?" Of course this reformulated question is not 'better' but rather 'less worse'! ["Bad" is already an axiological term and "person" assumes/presupposes a metaphysics.] One's metaphysics determines one's outlook/view of reality, the totality of one's ideas, one's experiences, and so on, considered as a whole. Part of this totality is one's beliefs, values, standards, and so on. So, axiology is derivative from metaphysics. I start with metaphysics because that was how the question was formulated. It stared first with the term "metaphysics" rather than "axiology". So, the "logic" of the question determines the "logic" of the answer! Actually, the question may be read as or may turn into [or indeed is!] a chicken or egg question... new answer Metaphysics describes how things work. What a person understands about how things work will definitely affect the judgment related to values. If I think God does the good things for me and the devil does the bad things to me, then the way I see value will be much different than after I have admitted and proven that my thoughts are what causes my reality. This completely changes the way I view things now. By understanding more of myself, I understand more about other things. Metaphysics will define the universal laws which govern everything so that we can take greater responsibility for their correct use. By working within the laws, we progress much faster. (MORE)