Learning About Goal Values

Susan G. Clark, Evan J. Andrews and Ana E. Lambert
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Susan G. Clark: Yale University
Evan J. Andrews: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Ana E. Lambert: Education and Development (SEED) University of Manchester

Chapter Chapter 10 in Policy Sciences and the Human Dignity Gap, 2024, pp 117-131 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Human beings always seek and desire values, albeit with differing degrees of importance and across time. These values include respect, well-being, affection, wealth, power, skill, knowledge, and rectitude, although they are not listed in any order. Everyone possesses a subset of these values, referred to as base values, with the aspiration of acquiring additional values, known as scope values. Learning to see these values in your life and social interactions can open new ways to understand our collective situation or context—about human nature and the maximization postulate. Importantly, this knowledge can help you see how and why groups organize in our society. You can best grasp the cultural situation and the values to see what our institutions do. We know that in totalitarian societies, the social process (value production, enjoyment) is designed to concentrate values in the hands of a few elites at the expense of the inclusive citizenry. Like this book, this chapter argues the case of human dignity in a healthy environment for all people and non-human life.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-52501-8_10

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