section_path: Theories of the intrinsically good/Welfarist theories/Mid-range theories
section_name: Mid-range theories
paragraph_text: Mid-range theories
  
  Conceptual metaphor theories argue against both subjective and objective conceptions of value and meaning, and focus on the relationships between body and other essential elements of human life. In effect, conceptual metaphor theories treat ethics as an ontology problem and the issue of how to work-out values as a negotiation of these metaphors, not the application of some abstraction or a strict standoff between parties who have no way to understand each other's views.