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Modern [[Christians]] and other religious people believe that values are absolute, as commanded by God in the [[Ten Commandments]]. In this document, God created certain values which man must abide by, and by which human actions are judged. For example, one absolute value referenced in this document is the [[sanctity of life]], embodied in, "thou shalt not murder." [[Conservative]]s tend to adhere to a very value-based creed. Conservative discourse – such as a reference to "value voters" – reflects this alignment. | Modern [[Christians]] and other religious people believe that values are absolute, as commanded by God in the [[Ten Commandments]]. In this document, God created certain values which man must abide by, and by which human actions are judged. For example, one absolute value referenced in this document is the [[sanctity of life]], embodied in, "thou shalt not murder." [[Conservative]]s tend to adhere to a very value-based creed. Conservative discourse – such as a reference to "value voters" – reflects this alignment. | ||
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It is also important for one to understand the difference between Values and [[Reason]]. Values can be used to determine good and bad, while reason can be used to determine rational and irrational. | It is also important for one to understand the difference between Values and [[Reason]]. Values can be used to determine good and bad, while reason can be used to determine rational and irrational. | ||
Revision as of 16:42, February 24, 2020
Values are meta-qualities or beliefs referred to in describing a particular action, in determining whether an action is "good," or "bad." A subject of debate in the culture wars in America is whether values are subjective or objective - that is, whether they can change from person to person, or whether values are absolute qualities created and referenced by some non-human source like God.
Modern Christians and other religious people believe that values are absolute, as commanded by God in the Ten Commandments. In this document, God created certain values which man must abide by, and by which human actions are judged. For example, one absolute value referenced in this document is the sanctity of life, embodied in, "thou shalt not murder." Conservatives tend to adhere to a very value-based creed. Conservative discourse – such as a reference to "value voters" – reflects this alignment.
Values vs Reason
It is also important for one to understand the difference between Values and Reason. Values can be used to determine good and bad, while reason can be used to determine rational and irrational.
As Dennis Prager states, "Reason can lead people to all kinds of conclusions. For example, asked if he would kill a disabled baby, a distinguished professor of philosophy at Princeton University responded, “Yes, if that was in the best interests of the baby and of the family as a whole.” Can you offer a purely rational reason why the professor is wrong? The only reason I can offer is a belief that all human beings are created in God’s image and are therefore infinitely precious. But the preciousness of all human life is a belief, not an assertion of reason. The Greeks, the founders of Western reason, thought it quite reasonable to leave sickly babies to die of exposure. The baby would just be a burden on the parents and the state. It was faith-based Jerusalem, the other parent of Western civilization, not reason-based Athens, that taught the world to keep sickly babies alive." [1]
As the world continues to move more and more to the left people tend to follow reason rather than live by values.
