- The 4 main shared values
- 1- Freedom
- 2- Respect
- 3- Equality
- 4- Justice
- The 3 unshared values
- 1- Love
- 2- Goodness
- 3- Courage
- References
The values shared and unshared have the social function of making better coexistence, giving each person moral qualities. Values, whatever they are, make life in society possible.
Thanks to values, conflicts are avoided and hierarchies are established about what is acceptable and beneficial and what is not.
Apart from these common traits in shared values and those that are not, there is a fundamental difference between these: the number of people who agree to keep them as a fundamental part of their behavior.
Among the shared values are some such as freedom, respect and equality, while some of the not shared are love, kindness and honesty.
The 4 main shared values
Shared values are considered the true basis of coexistence between human beings. They are the set of moral beliefs that the vast majority of the population has.
In fact, they are taken into account among human rights, with the intention that they are respected and assumed by all.
The importance of these values is such that they can avoid wars and conflicts, hatred and repression, as well as other great problems.
1- Freedom
In this case, freedom is not only understood in the classical sense that all men are born and must be free, but also in that one must have the possibility to choose each of the individual decisions.
The only brake on this freedom would be compliance with the law and not harming others.
2- Respect
It is one of the most important values for life in society. With this, the dignity of others is recognized, perceiving them from the positive.
It also has a direct impact on each person, since to obtain respect it is necessary to offer it to others.
3- Equality
Equality does not consist in standardizing society, but in respecting different ways of being and thinking.
Ultimately, it is about recognizing that all human beings have the same rights and must have the same opportunities.
4- Justice
This principle works by being the one that prohibits or allows the different actions that human beings do in society.
It is a social agreement, which establishes the laws that are considered adequate and promises to respect them.
The 3 unshared values
Unshared values, despite being important, are characterized by being more subjective; They respond to the way of thinking of each person.
Some are purely individual, while others are shared with very few people.
Faced with the universality and invariability of the shared, these often depend on personal circumstances, and may vary over time.
1- Love
One of the characteristic elements of love is that, despite being important, it is not usually shared with more than a few people.
In addition, there can be very different ways of living it, so it is different in each individual.
2- Goodness
As with love, there is no universal definition of goodness. There are very different ways of looking at it, depending on many variables.
Apart from this, not everyone has this moral value or the will to acquire it.
3- Courage
Although it is often said that everyone can have traits of courage, in reality this value does not appear in all human beings.
Some people do not even consider it fundamental, so it is clearly part of the non-shared values.
References
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- Justo Serna Alonso, Anaclet Pons Pons. The cultural history. Recovered from books.google.es
- Naomi Ellemers, Manuela Barreto. Sharing Moral Values: Anticipated Ingroup Respect as a Determinant of Adherence to Morality-Based. Recovered from journals.sagepub.com
- Brooks, David. If It Feels Right… (September 12, 2011). Retrieved from nytimes.com
- CL Ten. Enforcing a Shared Morality. Recovered from journals.uchicago.edu