Values

What are Values?

• As human beings we are constantly evaluating our reality.
• A value refers to a certain degree of preference.
• We value something because it is a useful object.
• When referring to actions, we value what 
• we remark as admirable.

Authors of the Theory of Values

Classification of Values

• Religious: the sacred & the divine.
• Intellectual: truth, wisdom, intelligence.
• Material: profit, price, quality.

Classification of Values

• Social: prosperity, prestige, fame, honor.
• Sensitive joy: pleasure & pain..
• Moral: good life, dignity, liberty, justice
• solidarity, respect, tolerance, peace.

Hierarchy of Values

• Any human being by his or her experience, education
• or culture, establishes a hierarchy of values in life
• determining what is most valuable for him or her.