Category: Unit 02

Response to “A Question of Values: Six Ways We Make the Personal Choices”

Posted on by Lili

         After reading the article “A Question of Values: Six Ways We Make the Personal Choices”, the Hunter Lewis introduce some main problems: What are values? Does it truly exist? How can we formulate them? In terms of the third question, I agree with the author’s point of view that the six different value systems (authority, logic, experience, emotion, intuition, and science) formulate our values and guide us to know something or decision making (pg.7, Lewis H). However, everyone has his own set of core value systems like me. I have made an assessment called decision making style; I found my style is emphasis on intuitive style. No matter which style I belong to, I still easy to be influenced by others when making some important choice like going abroad to study: choose UK or USA. I choose here because my parents always told me that the American Education System is more advanced than UK.

        In order to be myself, I should know my own set of value. In the process of exploring how can I to be myself. I found that people often should ask themselves some questions: Is this something important to you? Is this point of view you want to stand by even if other people against you? How do you feel when someone you know agrees with yours? When and why would cause you to make a decision that conflicts with your value? Etc. I believe these kinds of questions can help individuals to know how these six value systems to affect and formulate our own core values.

        Besides, everyone have many personal values, I want to mention that we should find that what value we care the most and should insist it. Through this article, we know there are many factors to formulate our core values. Also, different people have different preference and decision making style, but we cannot ignore that our value statement drives us how to behave in the life. In order to have a satisfying and comfortable living style, I suggest people can use Lewis’s six ways to analyze which way they will focus on more than other factors, know how to make their own value more clear, and think how can we use our values to make an effective decisions in our daily life.