Values

Values

Inner self is awareness

Be consciously aware of the things you do, do not judge or act on them, just be aware of the thoughts and feelings, but do not believe that they are reality in itself. Let them go by.

Values formation through community service

Ø Are caught not taught

Ø Whatever we have learned at home, in school and in the environment are internalized with in ourselves

Ø Values are said to be worth the importance we attach to different factors in our lives.

o Comes from a latin word “valere”

Ø A value has been defined as any object, activity, or frame of mind that a person considers to be very important to his or her life

Ø Unlike attitudes, values come in, as conscious list of priorities

Ø All of our values taken together are called value system.

a corporate culture

Ø Is a system of values shared throughout any given palce or organization

Ø Values education is founded on a sound philosophy of the human person with all its philosophical ramifications and implications. The system and overarching value that characterizes education is HUMAN DIGNITY.

the meaning of man as a person

Ø The term “person” can be exclusively attached to human being since not all person are considered human beings and vice versa

Ø To speak of man as a being with others is to speak of man as a person.

Ø Ample consideration was rendered in a inquiry on personalism.

Personalism- is a study of man as a person

- Unique, a who, a subject, and a self… never alone in his existence

Personhood (pagkatao)- individual unique personhood, in as much as the individual is the person, and the person in the individual.

)being with others

1. General

2. Specific

>Man”s co-existence or intersubjectively, on the one hand, does not require a learning process or experience.

>requires a learning process in the context of the quality or mode of man being-with human.

LOVE OF GOD, OF ONESELF, OF NEIGHBOR, AND OF COUNTRY

Ø Biblical basis

Ø Matthew 22.35-40

Ø Matthew 22:37

· LOVE THE LORD, YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND. (greatest commandment)

· Love your neighbor as you love yourself(39) (2^nd most important commandments)

SELF

*selfhood is to conceive it as a personal role that one plays in the general drama in life

*Presence of individual difference

Responsibilities.. decisions.. relationships and involvements that are to be lived and work that is performed.

WHERE VALUES COME FORM

-early childhood (values of our parents, the environment, the school, the church and the government.)

CORE AND RELATED VALUES

-Conceived and enunciated the 8 core and related values that everybody- not only the youths- should have and nurture.

1. Physical (health-physical fitness, cleanliness, harmony with material universe, art and beauty)

2. Intellectual (truth- knowledge, creative and critical thinking)

3. Moral (love- integrity. Honestly, self-worth, self esteem, personal discipline)

4. Spiritual (spiritually- faith in God)

5. Social, Family, Society (social responsibility- mutual love, respect, fidelity, responsible parenthood, concern for others/common good, freedom/equality, social justice/respect. Human rights- peace/active nonviolence, popular participation)

6. Economic (economic efficiency- thrift conservation of resources, work ethics, self reliance, productivity, Scientific and technological knowledge

7. Political (nationalism- common identity, national unity, esteem, commitment, civic consciousness/pride, bayanihan/solidarity, loyalty to country)