Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Dec. 2008
Value is a quality that gives things, events or people an ethical or aesthetic estimate as appropriate in each case and that may be positive or negative..
Being an extremely important and widely studied issue within the field of philosophy is that within this there is a branch that deals only with your case and study: the axiology. Basically this will deal with the nature and essence of the value in question.
Regarding then to its nature, the philosophical currents of the Idealism and Materialismthey propose two questions that are well opposed to each other. Within Idealism there are two positions, on the one hand Objective Idealism believes that value is found outside of people or things, while for Subjective Idealism the value can be found in the conscience of people.
And for its part, Materialism, considers that the nature of value resides and will depend on the ability of each human being to objectively value the world.
On the other hand, the values are also used to give us a finished
idea of the moral characteristics that people have. Among the most outstanding values and that most people seek to achieve as a personal goal, we can cite the responsibility, modesty, solidarity and pity.The values, in addition, for the society or community in which each human being develops, lives and coexists with the rest, are usually used to teach about which actions or attitudes to follow and which to put aside because they damage the happy coexistence within a society or because they are widely harmful to the development of our neighbor.
At home or at school, values are often used as examples of social relationships so that children learn to always act with respect for the other. Surely, when someone acts consistently with one of the values that we cite above, it will be said that that person has values. Due to this question of the social convention about them, it is said that values are also beliefs of utmost importance, that a culture shares after they have arisen as a consequence of the convention Social.
From this will emerge the famous Value scale that prevails in every society, which will propose values going from the most positive to the most negative.
Issues in Value