Labor, Value, Morality

A primary debate in Modern Morality concerns the locus of Evaluation: the pre-conditions of an Action, e. g. the Intention, vs. the post-conditions of an Action, e. g.  a Feeling.  Thus, the two sides share a privileging of an inert condition in Moral Evaluation.  In notable contrast, the locus of Evaluation for Aristotle is the performance itself of an Action--whether or not it is balanced between extremes.  But, while this alternative is well-known to Modern Moralists of both stripes, they are apparently unfamiliar with a more contemporary variation of it--the Labor Theory of Value, according to which the locus of Evaluation is the degree of Exertion of an Action.  So, this concept of Value, with the Aristotelian modification of relativizing it to an agent, can be generalized to all Action, thereby privileging a dynamic condition over the traditional inert one.  The consequent revaluation of values seems consistent with Nietzsche's aim to invigorate an enfeebled society, and with the concept of Will to Power, but there is little indication that he recognizes its potential use in that context.