This document discusses values formation and the role it plays in one's life. It explains that there are transcendent values like love, care and concern for others that remain constant over time. It also notes that values are both taught and learned from experience, and that strengthening one's will through virtuous living leads to living according to right values and finding abundance and joy. The document outlines a hierarchy of values from pleasure to vital to spiritual to holy.

1. CHAPTER 1
Lesson 5

2. Values
Formation
and You

3. “Education in values means the cultivation of affectivity,
leading the educand through exposure to experience of
value and the valuable. – R. Aquino

4. Transcendent value
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.
They remain unchange amidst changing times. These are
called transcendent values.

5. Values are both taught and caught

6. Value formation is a training of the
intellect and will
“The intellect proposes and the will disposes.” St. Thomas
Aquinas.
“Thought must precede the deliberation of the will.” William
Kelly 1965.

7. Virtuous vs. Vicious life
and their effect on the will
...a virtuous life strengthens you to live by the right values and
live a life of abundance and joy while a vicious life leads you to
perdition and misery.

8. Hierarchy of Values
(Max Scheler)
Pleasure values
Vital values
Spiritual values
values of
the Holy

9. “we do not live by bread alone but also by the word that comes
from the mouth of God” – Luke 4:4
“we do not live by bread alone but also by the word that comes
from the mouth of God” – Luke 4:4

10. “we do not live by bread alone but also by the word that comes
from the mouth of God” – Luke 4:4
“we do not live by bread alone but also by the word that comes
from the mouth of God” – Luke 4:4