Artifact # 2 Life Values
Objectives
1. Become familiar with the basic relationship of human values to psychological and philoshopical endeavors.
2.Understand that values are formed from external and internal drives of an individual.
3.Explore one’s own value system.
Original Post
A Question of Values:
I just read the excerpt from the article, Hunter Lewis’ A Question of Values: Six Ways We Make the Personal Choices That Shape Our Lives (1990). That makes me think over the value. What exactly is the value? Where the value comes from?
In the article, the author point out the basis framework of value. Lewis stated, “although the term values is often used loosely, it should be synonymous with personal evaluations and related beliefs, especially personal evaluations and beliefs about the “good”, the “just” and the “beautiful,” (p.7). I think this is the fundamental step when people are thinking about value. Lewis also conclude 6 mental model that how can we gain the knowledge. I agree that people get the knowledge from emotion and authority. Indeed, I rely on the knowledge that I learn from school or authority. I am an emotional people and sometime I judge thing by my instinct. Although my friend would disagree my point, I still insist my view. I don’t know why I will so insist my point in that time. It’s maybe the women sixth sense. That’s also why I don’t know where the value comes from. To be more specific, I never thought about what kind of way we get the “value”. This articles maybe the answer for how we have the “value”.
Also, lewis mentioned that “are the four basis models of developing values truly complete? Are there really no others? Possibly…what is called intuition here may be given a different name elsewhere”. (p.12) That’s true that the 6 models is not exactly work for everyone, but it gave the direction for people to explore. The process of evaluating the things and make a comment is how to shape our value. I consider that people’s cognitive ability is the first thing that people can make comment about something. Different people’s perspective makes various evaluating.
That makes me think about the other way of value. Excepting the 6 ways that Lewis has mentioned. There do still exist the network values. For example, the Xbox game playing, the more different game was released; people would more tend to buy Xbox. To some extent, video games increase Xbox’s value. Therefore, in this case, the value is relative.
The original blog post can be viewed here.
This work made me think deeper about my life. It is a good moment for me to think about what is important to me and what kind of life value I should carry on in the future. I so care about my family and my family can give lots of love to me. I’m really treasure them and love them. I think family is my first priority in my life. I am studying at USA, but I always miss them and want to do something special for them when I go back home. The knowledge and moral I was learning at school helps me to become a better person and understand more about the parent’s hard work.
I think Lewis really made his point that Personal values matter a great deal. Without them, we cannot live at all, for they are just as essential as air, food and water, and protection from the elements. Without clearly focused values, it is probably impossible to lead a purposeful and satisfying life” (P. 18) Personal value determined what kind of person we are. A correct value is also important to person and it can be generated through the school education or the people. My parent influences me a lot and they would teach me how to be a good person. Lewis state “individual A may like B in one respect, like C in another, like D in another. In other ways B may be more like D, C like A, and otherwise all four may be quite different”(P. 6). I often listen those words from other people, like the friends of my parent. “ You really looks like your father, he also keen to the swimming” said by parent’s friends. This is might be the gene or my dad always takes me to pool when I was little. Who know? However, as for me, my parent definitely is the people who affect my personal value a lot.
Future Goals
In the future, I will take some time to consider my life value again. Family, personal development, and friendship is still my top 3 important thing to me. I will keep this 3 and improve my other good person value. Also, I will give up my bad habit and become a better person. I will study hard to learn more knowledge and moral to improve my quality.
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