Top Research Papers on Universal Human Values

Universal human values-this is one of the most frequently encountered phrases today; we are constantly coming across it on the pages of newspapers and magazines. Its frequency creates the illusion that its content is intuitively clear, attractive, and shared by everyone. However, the various versions of what is understood by universal human values-the good, truth, beauty, freedom, or civil society, a non-nuclear world, ecological protection, pluralism, etc.-show that this is by no means the case.

In this postmodern age, anyone seeing a title like “Chinese Values and Western Values: Clash, Coexistence, or Consensus?” should have the knee-jerk reflex to ask back: Which “Chinese”? Which “Western”? The “Chinese” of the Communist Party under Xi Jinping? Of Mao Zedong in Yan'an? Of the Manchu Qing or the Mongol Yuan? The West of Adolf Hitler, Woodrow Wilson, or Pope Francis? As a Sinologist, I have witnessed many of these usually self-serving, “holier than thou” debates: Why did the Chinese not develop science? Is there such a thing as “civil society” in China? Is “rule of law” conceivable i...

The"universal values"can be put into objective and subjective categories.The objective universal values reflect the relationship between people and the objective world.They are objective in that human beings have survived and thrived thanks to these universal values.In contrast,it is unlikely that'universal values in the subjective form' exist,though certain common values shared to a certain degree by some people on certain problems are not only probable but also necessary.

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The article analyses what we term governmental ethics regimes as forms of scientific governance. Drawing from empirical research on governmental ethics regimes in Germany, Franceand the UK since the early 1980s, it argues that these governmental ethics regimes grew out of the technical model of scientific governance, but have departed from it in crucial ways. It asks whether ethics regimes can be understood as new ‘‘technologies of humility’’ ( Jasanoff) and answers the question with a ‘‘yes, but’’. Yes, governmental ethics regimes have incorporated features that go beyond technologies of pred...

The NHS needs to step up a gear to use social media effectively, and nurses need not be fearful of it if they use it correctly, and #nomakeupselfie is exactly that, a campaign to raise money; it will not be instead of a cancer-awareness campaign.

The question to be addressed in this brief talk is the following: from a moral point of view, what makes human beings special? How do they acquire a special value? The question presupposes that human beings do possess a special value. Is this presupposition warranted? In a way, yes. In another way, no. When it comes to the question of life and death, human beings are special. But when it comes to questions of pleasure and pain, human beings are not special. When it comes to questions of pleasure and pain, human beings, and other animals, are on a moral par. Let me develop the latter theme firs...

This article presents a theory of potentially universal aspects in the content of human values. Ten types of values are distinguished by their motivational goals. The theory also postulates a structure of relations among the value types, based on the conflicts and compatibilities experienced when pursuing them. This structure permits one to relate systems of value priorities, as an integrated whole, to other variables. A new values instrument, based on the theory and suitable for cross-cultural research, is described. Evidence relevant for assessing the theory, from 97 samples in 44 countries,...

This article analyzes the fact that the subject of values is the basis of a number of worldviews, forms the central part of them, that many philosophical currents and thinkers have not bypassed this topic, and other issues. Also in the books and pamphlets devoted to the philosophical-historical analysis of the subject by scholars and experts living in the West and Europe, Russia and other parts of the former Soviet Union, this analysis focuses mainly on the heritage and value of European scholars.

Just as there are many cultures within the world, so also are there many practices, beliefs, myths, values, and traditions within each culture. These unique ways of being can often present challenging frames of reference that may prevent a whole perspective from being attained. This essay examines the contextual formation of culture and the fundamentals intricate to the search for universal values. An illumination is also provided upon some of the major and extreme forms of cultural practices that may pose difficulty in achieving such a goal.

The medical model of illness and mental illness as presented by Christopher Boorse is outlined and the concept 'illness' is defined as a practically useful metaphor and 'mental illness' dismissed as a misleading concept.

This original and engaging book advocates an unabashedly empirical approach to understanding human values: abstract ideals that we consider important, such as freedom, equality, achievement, helpfulness, security, tradition, and peace. Our values are relevant to everything we do, helping us choose between careers, schools, romantic partners, places to live, things to buy, who to vote for, and much more. There is enormous public interest in the psychology of values and a growing recognition of the need for a deeper understanding of the ways in which values are embedded in our attitudes and beha...

This chapter examines psychological and philosophical traditions in the study of values and explores two perspectives on values that are useful for thinking about their role in understanding what it means to be human.

Introduction: In search of universal values / Karl-Josef Kuschel, Dietmar Mieth -- Towards a common ethical code for humankind: address to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences 2001 / John Paul II -- The need for a global ethic: declaration by the eighth General Assembly in Harare 1998 / World Council of Churches -- Global order and global ethic / Konrad Raiser -- The 1993 Chicago global ethic declaration / Christel Hasselmann -- From Chicago to the 1999 Cape Town call / Gunther Gebhardt -- Compassion as a global programme for Christianity / Hille Haker -- The challenge of pluralism and gl...

This book grows out of a long-felt need for a readable source that explores all aspects of people's values. Good information on the study of human values exists scattered about in various sources, spanning disciplines and decades, but it is not easily located nor readily assimilated and organized in mind. Richard W. Kilby attempts to remedy that situation. This book is a general comprehensive work on human values and is composed of chapters on types of values, their nature, their role in lives, their origins, and methods of their study or assessment. It was written on the assumption that most ...

Are religious values universal? After studying and teaching religious studies for nearly thirty years it is hard not to recognise that there are indeed a plethora o f local, indigenous, and revivalist religious traditions, both within larger religions and independent o f them. There are many Judaisms, Islams, Christianities, Buddhisms, Hinduisms and Daoisms. My researches have led me to the conclusion that the differences between religious traditions are real and not easily reduced to any single pattern or model. But there are, o f course, many overlapping elements, conceptual, theologica...

The Choice of human value is the choice of subjective human way that is stipulated by the certain idea and aim of human value. Whether or not the human value's idea corrects it is of utmost importance to the human life, so we should establish the human value's idea that accords with the historical development direction, serves the people and is promising and diligent in one's work. Meanwhile, we should oppose individualism, money worship and hedonism.

We constructed a theory of the universal types of values as criteria by viewing values as cognitive representations of three universal requirements: (a) biological needs, (b) interactional requirements for interpersonal coordination, and (c) societal demands for group welfare and survival. From these requirements, we have derived and presented conceptual and operational definitions for eight motivational domains of values: enjoyment, security, social power, achievement, sehxiirection, prosocial, restrictive conformity, and maturity. In addition, we have mapped values according to the interests...

Universal values are the value orientation established through long years of life practice and exchange,and the result of the common involvement and contribution of many nationalities.However,with the acceleration of globalization,when some universal values are being accepted by more and more people,some problems have arisen,namely the return of universalism and nationalism-two forms of extremism.Therefore,it is necessary to clarify people's understanding of universality from various perspectives.

I found myself beautiful as a free human mind. Mrinal, in Rabindranath Tagore's “Letter from a Wife” It is obvious that the human eye gratifies itself in a way different from the crude, non-human eye; the human ear different from the crude ear, etc. … The sense caught up in crude practical need has only a Restricted sense. For the starving man, it is not the human form of food that exists, but only its abstract being as food; it could just as well be there in its crudest form, and it would be impossible to say wherein this feeding activity differs from that of animals . Marx, Economic and Phil...