Explain the sources of Human values.
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Values are ideas that guide us in action. In this, they are similar to plans, goals, fears, intentions, policies, etc, and the like. All these are ideas which guide us in action.
Among these ideas, values alone concern the manner of our actions, rather than the consequences (as with plans, goals, and fears) or the mere fact of their performance (as with intentions, and policies).
There’s no clean way to divide up values, but here’s a partial taxonomy. There are values about…
how we aim to treat people (honestly, openly, generously, without mercy);
how we aim to act more generally (boldly, thoughtfully, carefully);
how we aim to approach things (with reverence, with levity);
how we aim to keep things (simple, sensual, rocking, full of surprise).
A person’s action-guiding ideas come from various places. But there’s one place where values come from that’s of particular importance: some values, which I’ll call “personal values”, result from a personal consideration about the best way to live (either based on personal experimentation or on personal reflection). So, personal values are made by compressing lived (or imagined) experience into some concrete maxim about what will work for living well. This maxim is then used to guide the person in various types of situations.
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