Values Formation and You To be moral is to be human. Living by the right values humanizes. “Is there such thing as RIGHT, UNCHANGING and UNIVERSAL values?” Is the right value for me the right value for you? Are the values that we, Filipinos consider as right also considered by the Japanese, the Americans, or the Spaniards as right values? Or are values dependent on time, place, and culture? There are two varied answers depending on the camp where you belong. Idealist Point of View  There are unchanging and universal values.  The values of love, care, and concern for our fellowmen are values for all people regardless of time and space.  These are called transcendent values Transcendent because they are beyond changing times, beyond space and people. They remain to be a value even if no one values them. They are accepted as value everywhere. Relativist Point of View  Claim that there are no universal and unchanging values. They assert that values are dependent on time and place.

1. Values Formation and YouValues Formation and You
Prepared by:
Atienza, Joan R.
Bachelor of Secondary Education III
Golden Gate Colleges
The Teaching ProfessionThe Teaching Profession

2. “ Is there such thing as RIGHT,
UNCHANGING and UNIVERSAL
values? ”

3. Idealist Point of View
 There are unchanging and
universal values.

4.  The values of love, care, and
concern for our fellowmen are
values for all people regardless of
time and space.
 These are called transcendent
values

5. Relativist Point of View
 Claim that there are no universal
and unchanging values. They assert
that values are dependent on time
and place.

6. “ Are values TAUGHT or CAUGHT? ”

7. Values are TAUGHT!
Values are CAUGHT...

8. Cognitive Affective
Behavioral
DIMENSIONS

9. 3 Dimensions of Values
 Cognitive Dimension - Mental
understanding and readiness
 Affective Dimension - Experience toward
something
 Behavioral dimension - Living by the value

10. Value formation is a training of
the Intellect and will
Your intellect discerns a value and presents it to
the will as a right or wrong value.
Your will wills to act on the right value and
wills to avoid the wrong value presented by
your intellect.

11. As described by St. Thomas Aquinas,
“The intellect proposes and the will
disposes”

12. It is clear that “nothing is willed unless it first
known”. Thought must precede the
deliberation of the will. An object is willed
as it is known by the intellect and proposed
to the will as desirable and good. Hence the
“formal and adequate object of the will is
good as apprehended by the intellect”,
(William Kelly, 1965)

13. It is, therefore, necessary that you
develop your intellect in its 3 functions
namely:
 Formation of ideas
 Judgment
 Reasoning

14. Virtuous versus vicious life and their
affect on the will

15. Max Scheler’s Hierarchy of Values
Values of the Holy
Spiritual Values
Vital Values
Pleasure Values

16. Pleasure Values
- the pleasant against the unpleasant
- The agreeable against the disagreeable
* sensual feelings
* experience of pleasure or pain

17. Vital Values
- values pertaining to the well being either
of the individual or of the community
* health
* vitality
- values of vital feeling
* capability
* excellence

18. Spiritual Values
- Values independent of the whole sphere
of the body and of the environment;
- grasped in spiritual acts of preferring
loving and hating
* Aesthetic values: beauty against ugliness
* Values of right and wrong
* Values of pure knowledge

19. Values of the Holy
- Appear only in regard to objects
intentionally given as “absolute
objects”
* Belief
* Adoration
* Bliss

20. Values Clarification
1.Did you choose it freely?
2. Did you choose it from among alternatives?
3. Did you choose it after thoughtful
consideration of the consequences of your
choice?
4. Do you cherish it?
5. Do you affirm it publicly?
6. Do you act on it?
7. Do you act on it repeatedly/habitually?

21. References:
The Teaching Profession Book
http://www.gtcs.org.uk/professional-standards/the-
standards/professional-values-into-action.aspx