Abstract

The paper examines the importance of the relationship between evaluation a and knowledge in the environmental thinking. It focuses on the impact of the scientific knowledge on the value structures, as well as on the process of creation an acceptance of values, especially of those having existential meaning and ontological status. The author sheds light also on the separation of facts from values and on the distinction between knowledge and evaluation as taking place in modern culture. She analyses particularly the impact of these processes on creation and acceptance of the environmental values.