Ethics Report Sam.1679458392131

Basic Universal Values
LESSON 1
Reporter ： SAMANTA FAYE M. BRUCE

What is Universal Value?
What is Universal Value?

A value is universal value if it
has the same value or worth
for all, or almost all, people.
*Universal Values are
formed by implified
behavioral standards that *Also acquired with family,
are necessary to live in a education and school, because
harmonious and peaceful the process of socialization
society. involves that new generations
internalize timeless concepts.
TEN TYPES OF
Schwartz defined ‘values’ as “conceptions of the desirable that influence the way people select
action and evaluate events(Sen, 1999)
UN Charter on Universal Values
The values enshrined in the United Nations (UN) Charter, respect

for fundamental human rights, social justice and human dignity,
and respect for the equal rights of men and women, serves as
overarching values to which suppliers of goods and services to the
UN are expected to adhere.
In a speech at Tubingen University in Germany, UN Secretary

General Kofi Annan emphasized that PROGRESS, EQUAL RIGHTS,
HUMAN DIGNITY, are acutely needed in this age of globalization.
Annan further stated that three years ago, in the
Millennium Declaration, all states reaffirmed certain
fundamental values as being "essential to
international relations in the twenty-first century":
freedom, equality, solidarity, tolerance, respect for
nature, and shared responsibility. They adopted
practical, achievable targets - the Millennium
Development Goals - for relieving the blight of
extreme poverty and making such rights as education,
basic health care and clean water a reality for all.
However, globalization has brought nations closer
together in the sense that they are all affected by
each other's actions, but not in the sense that they all
share the benefits and the burdens. Instead, some
nations have allowed it to drive other nations further
apart, increasing the disparities in wealth and power
both between societies and within them.
BASIC UNIVERSAL HUMAN VALUES
The function of most of these basic values is to make it possible

for everyday human to realize or maintain the very
highest or most basic universal core values of life, love, and happiness.
BASIC UNIVERSAL HUMAN VALUES
refer to those values which are at the core of being human.

The values which are considered basic inherent values
in human include truth, honesty, love, peace,
non-violence and etc. because they bring out the
fundamental goodness of human beings and society at large.
Importance of Human Values
• Provides understanding of the attitudes, motivation and behaviours

• Influences our perception of the world around us
• Represents interpretation of "right and wrong"
• Provides a way to understand humans and organisation.
THE BASIC UNIVERSAL HUMAN VALUES ARE :
1. Happiness - In the ancient past the founders of the big religions in the world have
already taught about the reward for a religious life by an afterlife in Paradise, Heaven,
or Nirvana etc., to enjoy there an ultimate and eternal happiness. And from this we
can understand that in fact eternal happiness is the ultimate value of all religious
people. For nobody would like to go to any dull or miserable Paradise or so.
2. Peace - Peace has to be seen as a basic condition for freedom and happiness,
for without peace there cannot be real freedom. Wherever there is fight, threat
or hostility, our freedom and happiness are inhibited or totally prevented.
3. Love - Love in a general sense can be best defined as feelings, or an experience
of deep connectedness or oneness with any other human being, any animal, plant, tree
thing, or unnamable. Love can also be experienced as something far beyond any
comprehension, and totally indescribable.
4. Freedom - Freedom means the experience of unrestricted, and to be as much

as possible independent of the social pressure of others. A basic condition for
happiness is however the experience of an inner, or mental freedom; freedom from
all kinds of stress, worry, anxiety, problems, obligations and fears, often directly or
indirectly caused by the respectless egocentric or power-oriented mentality of many
others in our society.
5. Safety - Safety means free of threat, fear and survival-stress. Without safety,
people tend to live out of their individual survival instinct, and long term insecurity
creates an egocentric survival-mentality. Without safety, people in a society are
burdened by emotional fear, helplessness, and anxiety.
6. Intelligence - Intelligence has been defined in many different ways to include

the capacity for logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge,
reasoning, planning, creativity, and problem solving. It can be more generally described
as the ability to perceive, or infer information, and to retain it as knowledge to be applied
towards adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.
7. Human respect - The most basic principle of any social community is feelings
of connectedness which come out of our perception, empathy and awareness that
the other human is basically as we are ourselves. This creates trust and a friendly
attitude towards the other. Out of this empathy and the awareness that the other is
basically as we are ourselves and the resulting feelings of connectedness we feel
a natural and spontaneous respect for the other.
8. Equality - Equality originates from aequalis, aequus and aqualitas. These are all old French
or Latin words. These French/ Latin words mean even, level and equal. Thus the meaning of the
word 'equality' used in political science corresponds to the meaning from which it originates.
Every person has certain claims to equality. There are two very important forms of legal or
formal equality. One is equality before law and equal protection of law. What is to be noted here
is that the legal member of the legal association can legitimately claim that all the citizens must
be treated equally by law and no discrimination is to be allowed.
9. Justice - It is the proper administration of the law; the fair and equitable treatment of all
individuals under the law. In general justice is needed to realize and maintain our
highest human values of freedom, peace, life, love and happiness; and injustice can prevent
or inhibit these highest human values.
10. Nature- Understanding our physical dependence of nature, and our awareness of being
part of it are needed to see the basic value of nature. Man is part of nature, and our very
human existence is dependent of nature and its ecology. And hence our highest human
values of life itself and freedom, safety, peace, love and happiness can only be realized
in harmony with nature.
11. Health - World Health Organization (WHO) defined health as being "a state of complete
physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity". In
1986 WHO also said that health is "a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living.
Health is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical
capacities." Also there is a term known as mental health and it describes either a level of
cognitive or emotional well-being or an absence of a mental disorder.
THE HUMAN DIGNITY
Human Dignity - from the Latin word,

dignitas which means worthiness. Dignity
implies that each person is worthy of honor
and respect for who they are, not just for
what they can do. In other words, human
dignity cannot be earned and cannot be
taken away.
Dignity is the right of a person to be valued and respected for their own
sake, and to be treated ethically.
Human dignity originates from God and is of God because we are
made in God's own image and likeness. Human life is sacred
because the human person is the most central and clearest reflect
of God among us. Human beings have transcendent worth and
value that comes from God; this dignity is not based on any human
quality, legal mandate, or individual merit or accomplishment.
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Basic Universal Values

Reporter ： SAMANTA FAYE M. BRUCE

What is Universal Value?

The values enshrined in the United Nations (UN) Charter, respect

In a speech at Tubingen University in Germany, UN Secretary

The function of most of these basic values is to make it possible

refer to those values which are at the core of being human.

• Provides understanding of the attitudes, motivation and behaviours

4. Freedom - Freedom means the experience of unrestricted, and to be as much

6. Intelligence - Intelligence has been defined in many different ways to include

Human Dignity - from the Latin word,

Reporter ： SAMMY CUTE

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