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Value

In Lewis H’s  article(1990), he talk a lot about the topic what value is and how people shape their value in their life. I consider this is an excellent article. I totally agree that Lewis divided  6 ways for people to shape their value. As Lewis mentioned in the article, there’s no one can identify whose value is right or wrong, people’s  instincts can shape different kinds of value. I come from China, a county with an long history. long long ago, Chinese philosophers begun to argue that people should shape their value according to their instincts or not. A Chinese philosopher whose name is Confucius encourage people to focus on their inner cultivation, he consider human should use ritual to reduce the evil inner characteristics like sex, greed. Confucius’s idea is a important part of traditional Chinese education. I agree that society can get benefits from educated people by ritual, however, I disagree that count the characteristics like sex as evil. Humans are born with instincts. Some people come from eastern might oppose to show artworks or photos of sex in the museum until today.  Because the education they get from school and family describe sex as a  mystical things when they were still young. I consider sex is an holy actives. It’s only way human can produce descendant.  I think people who consider sex as evil shape their value from authority. Family and school are a kind of authority. Human can shape their value by authority. Actually, I consider each people is individual, they all get unique value. For value, people might no necessary to judge right or wrong.  Human live in the community. They can affect each other and modify their value by themselves. No one should be the role model, people should choose the value they want to be. I found that people cannot shape their value only just see or hear the things. When I was a little kids, I hear a lot information about US people treat Chinese as an enemy during my school. However, after I been to Unite State, I found that what I hear is totally different from what I saw. I still not sure how people should shape their value, but what I thought is people should have their own judgement, have ability to analyze different kinds information, then studying and accumulate their knowledge.