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Human Values

When we talk about human values, we are talking about that which drives human beings towards good; or, conversely, in the absence of values, evil. Values, ethics, are what drive human beings to aspire to greater levels of understanding of ourselves and the world around us. Values are the respect for the dignity of life, the wellness mentally, physically and spiritually that create a peaceful quality of life. It is one's values that compels a person to respond to a distressed call for help, to drop a coin into the indigent's cup rather than cross the street to avoid the pain of making contact with despair; and it is the nurturing of parenthood, the leadership of a president, a queen, a clergyman, and a teacher. It is the goal to help one another achieve the balance to live amongst one another free from fear, free from harm, and in the spirit of community, a shared understanding of a shared world in which each living being has a right to a place on the planet in order to fulfill the greater purpose through existence.

"Nietzsche, Adler, Jung, and Hocking have claimed, 1 a single primordial value, of which all special values are differentiations, and two, what place in a system of values should be given to negative values -- to the alleged "instinct for death," masochism, asceticism, obscurantism, philistinism, hate, jealousy, nihilism, atheism, immoralism, and the like? Are these yet other dominant motives, on a level with the positive, with corresponding imperatives and moralities? (Parker, DeWitt H., 1931, p. 50)"