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environments. The concepts of aesthetics, elegance, beauty, change in the same
time with cultural context changes and, in the same cultural context, with changes
in time. What is elegant today, will not be tomorrow and what is in vogue today will
be antiquated tomorrow. Which is modern today is archaic the next day and what is
elegant to an Irish is extravagant for an American.
Value, Cost and appreciation
Value, cost and appreciation are characteristics that appear when appear, in the
subject, actions like valuation, costing and appraising. In this context, to cost will
correspond, in order to create an agreement, to endow with exchange value, to
assign a price and appreciation, to endow with affective value, to esteem. The
value and the esteem are characteristics of the objects than only exist in the
existence of the subject who valuates or appreciates them.
Value is a combination of factors that involves the appreciation a subject has for
something, his desire for its possession and what the current owner, had sacrificed
for it, plus his own esteem for the object. It is just that sacrifices interchange what
vitalizes the economy.
The economical value of the objects –price– is determined with reference to
another. The desire of a subject for an object is reached by means of the sacrifice
of any other object, which is at the same time, the object of desire of the second
subject.
Given that the characteristics value, cost and appreciation have only sense in the
case of objects that are, or could be, object of desire of any other subject, and
because of it susceptible of a transaction or interchange, will have only sense in
the merchandises. An uncomplete definition of merchandises cold be “objects with