If someone ask you what is your value, how to answer it ?  Actually, there is no a standard or a true answer for this question.  Because it depends on the different personal evaluations and beliefs. For example, if you ask a monk what is his personal value, he might answer you he is trying to figure out why the tree resting and why the river is flowing. And if you ask a person who has the same living environment of you, you and the person may have the similar answer about the question.  However, on the other hand, this question is kind of ridiculous. Because it is like “which came first-the chicken or the egg?”  Nevertheless, from the reading material, the author shows us how to sort it out:

“We cannot know the right questions to ask without some kind of framework, but we are asking the questions in the first place in order to develop a framework! Fortunately, there are other ways to proceed. We might, for example, try to stand back, get some detachment form the hurly-burly of what people say and do, focus instead on some of the simplest, most basic questions about values, beginning with what values are, and see where these questions and answers lead us.”(Lewis, 1990)

Lewis also mentioned a diagram of value:

Mental mode(Emotion)-> Way of forming value judgements(Emotion)-> Dominant personal value judgement(Emotion)-> Specific personal values and value system-> Behavior

This diagram is clearly demonstrate how a personal value form and finally effects  the behavior. We can easily find out the “Emotion” is pretty important in forming a personal value. In other words, the personal value forming process is a kind of emotion process. Because of the changing and forming of someone’s emotion, it will finally effect his/her value and behavior. Let me show you a series of phenomena in China, which is “Please don’t help old guys on the street”. This may sounds silly but it is true in China. Some of old people pretend they need help or just fall over on the street, and when you try to help them up, they might ask you more instead of the “simple help”. People used to be afraid bad people, and now, they are afraid of these old people too.  The sole result of this phenomenon is “Never help these old guys on street!”  So, in conclusion, value are easily be changed by emotion; and if your personal value is changed, your behavior will change as well.