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MODULE 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE ESSENCE VALUES

Overview
When we think of our values, we think of what is important to us in our
lives (e.g., security, independence, wisdom, success, kindness, pleasure).
Each of us holds multiple values with varying degrees of importance. A
particular value may be significant to one person but unimportant to another.
As a person with our own set of values, we must also be sensitive towards
others because what we have said above, what is important to us might not to
others. This module will tackle what values are, the fundamental values, and
how values are good. After studying this module, you shoukld be able to:

Lesson Objectives

a. Differentiate the basic kinds of values.


b. Explain the values as good in three views.

Lesson 1: Definition, Concept and Nature of Values

Etymologically, the word “values” comes from the Latin word “valere”
which means to measure the worth of something. Values are the elements of
life prevailing the society.

Values are basic and fundamental beliefs that guide or motivate attitudes
or actions. They help us to determine what is important to us.

Lesson 2: Basic Kinds of Values

What have you observed from the picture below?


Subjective Values and Objective Values

What is the Difference?

Objective- not influenced by Subjective- existing in the


personal feelings, mind ; belonging to the thinking
interpretations, or prejudice; subject rather than to the
based on facts; unbiased; an object of thought.
objective opinion

Example:

 It is sunny day today


 It is hot today

 I would like to obtain employment in the fielf of Education.


 I would like a good job.

Lesson 3: Values as Good

Thomistic View

Thomist ethics hold that it is necessary to observe both


circumstances and intentions to determine an action's moral value, and
therefore Aquinas cannot be said to be strictly either a deontologicalist
or a consequentialist.

Aristotelian View

Aristotle defines the supreme good as an activity of the rational


soul in accordance with virtue. Virtue for the Greeks is equivalent to
excellence. Aristotle defines “moral virtue as a disposition to behave in
the right manner and as a mean between extremes of deficiency and
excess, which are vices.”

Good in Relation to Moral Law

Moral law is a system of guidelines for behavior. These guidelines


may or may not be part of a religion, codified in written form, or legally
enforceable. For some people moral law is synonymous with the
commands of a divine being. For others, moral law is a set of universal
rules that should apply to everyone.

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