VALUES- these are natural and cultural objects, processes, relationships that have positive significance for humans. Things in themselves are value neutral. A value attitude arises only in one or another social context. In fact... ...
Value is the significance (benefit, usefulness) of a certain set of objects for a set of living beings. Used in several senses: “Value” as the name of an object, denoting recognition of its significance. Separate “Material values” and ... Wikipedia
The meaning of human existence. Concepts of value. Types of values- briefly These questions are asked by many especially acutely due to the fact that sooner or later in the life of every person there comes a moment when he realizes that life is finite. To live and act actively, a person must have an idea of the meaning of life... Small Thesaurus of World Philosophy
This was the answer the future great philosopher Diogenes of Sinope (400-325 BC) received from the Delphic Oracle when he asked him what he should do. Following literally the advice of this soothsayer (“overestimate your values”), Diogenes even became... ... Dictionary of popular words and expressions
AESTHETIC VALUES -- these are the values of figurative comprehension of the world in the process of any human activity (primarily in art) based on the laws of beauty and perfection. The term “aesthetics” appeared in scientific use in the middle of the 18th century, although the doctrine of beauty, about ... ... Thematic philosophical dictionary
The historical development of Russian civilization was determined primarily by the spiritual and moral values of the Russian people, the core of which became Holy Rus' with the adoption of Christianity. However, the choice of the Orthodox faith for the Russian people was not accidental... ... Russian history
Civilization- (Civilization) World civilizations, history and development of civilization Information about the concept of civilization, history and development of world civilizations Contents Contents Civilization: Origins of the use of the word History of world civilizations Unity of nature ... Investor Encyclopedia
- (Scheler) Max (1874 1928) German. philosopher and sociologist, founder of philosophy. anthropology and anthropopol. orientations in sociology, phenomenological. emotivist axiology and sociology of knowledge as an independent discipline. Studied at the Universities of Jena,... ... Encyclopedia of Cultural Studies
A special grace-filled quality of the Russian people, which has made it a stronghold of the Christian faith throughout the world. Sacrificial service to the ideals of goodness and justice, acquisition of the Holy Spirit, striving for sinlessness and perfection made Russians a new God... Russian history
Value, importance, significance, benefit, usefulness of something. Externally, value appears as a property of an object or phenomenon. However, significance and usefulness are not inherent in them by nature, not simply due to the internal structure of the object itself... Wikipedia
- (Scheler) Max (1874 1928) German philosopher and sociologist, one of the founders of axiology, cultural sociology and sociology of knowledge, philosophical anthropology. He studied in Munich, Berlin and Jena, studying philosophy and medicine. Student of R. Aiken,... ... History of Philosophy: Encyclopedia
Books
- Spiritual values. Production and consumption, S. F. Anisimov. The book reveals the role of ideological, political, moral, scientific, aesthetic and other spiritual...
- Spirit of Freemasonry. Shift Esoteric Values by Bailey Foster. "The Spirit of Freemasonry" contains five instructions from among those which the Tibetan Master intended to give...
Here we will talk about spiritual values in a person’s life, what they are and why they are so important.
Every person grows up with their own set of values. The most interesting thing is that they do not always serve a person, but on the contrary, they can even harm him.
Values are passed on to us from birth by our parents, teachers, educators, and friends.
We cannot always immediately understand which values harm us and which ones benefit us. Let's take a closer look at this!
What are values
Values are internal principles, beliefs that a person believes in and holds on to; he considers his values important and, if necessary, is ready to defend them.
Values can be both positive and negative.
Naturally, negative values harm a person. We can give examples of many values. For example, cigarettes, and even drugs, can become valuable for a person who will even look for advantages in them and protect them.
Those who drink alcohol believe that it is good for the body, sterilizes it from various types of infections and that drinking alcohol from time to time is necessary. Vodka sterilizes, wine dilates blood vessels, alcohol helps you relax and get away from problems. Although this is of course nonsense, alcohol is poison for the body.
Cigarettes are the best way to calm down and relieve nerves and stress, but at what cost?
It is important to see things in the real light, and not in an illusory one. In this article, I propose to discuss spiritual values, not religious ones.
Spiritual values
Spiritual values imply the presence of the Spirit in them. Development and strengthening of your inner Spirit, spiritual body.
The awareness that you discover these values within yourself, primarily for yourself and your own good, and not for the eyes of others. You choose to be this way for yourself.
The following spiritual values can be cited as an example:
- honesty;
- awareness;
- responsibility;
- love first of all for yourself, and then for others;
- self-confidence;
- sympathy;
- sincerity;
- love for your parents;
- respect for any form of life;
- peacefulness;
- resistance to stress;
- acceptance;
- fidelity (meaning to his wife);
- love for family.
This could go on for a long time. The main thing is that every value makes you stronger. By practicing these values within yourself, sticking to them simply because you choose to do so, you become a spiritually strong or spiritual person. It is unknown why this is so. It just is.
Naturally, in order to be honest with the people around you, you must first be honest with yourself; in order to be sincere with others, you need to learn not to lie to yourself. To love people, you must first love yourself.
It all starts with you, with your attitude towards yourself. If you hate yourself and don’t accept yourself, you don’t like yourself, then don’t think that the attitude of others towards you will be different or that you will suddenly burst into flames with passionate love for others. It's an illusion.
All these values, if you practice them, make you stronger.
Current society
Now in society, lying is normal, promiscuity is also normal, being insincere and two-faced, hating yourself and others, wearing masks, disrespecting parents, smoking and drinking are all normal, but not natural.
It doesn't grow the human spirit, it destroys it. A person feels internally defective, unable to change anything in his life.
Chasing external ideals or putting money and fame first is also not normal.
To be wealthy and have money, to live in luxury is a good desire, but when this is the only thing that matters to you, when you strive for this in order to prove to everyone what you are, that being superior in the eyes of others is no longer normal.
The inner always creates the outer. The outer world is only a reflection of the inner. What is the point of chasing a reflection when it is easiest to influence it by working with the inner world. This is precisely why you need internal spiritual values, to feel the inner core, to have the ability to create your life the way you choose.
I'm not asking you to believe it, you can just check it. Practice and you will learn everything, but this should not be the upbringing of parents, using and being guided by spiritual values is a conscious choice of everyone, and not driven into V programs from parents and others.
Thank you for your attention!!!
Until next time!
Yes, you can also leave a positive comment under this article.
Always yours: Zaur Mamedov
A person’s spiritual values are a set of concepts and principles that a person adheres to and is ready to defend. The first concepts are formed in childhood under the influence of loved ones. The family shapes the child’s understanding of the world around him and teaches him good or bad behavior.
What are the principles?
Values are divided into material and spiritual:
- money, a set of expensive goods, jewelry, luxury items, etc. are considered material;
- spiritual values are a combination of moral, moral, ethical and religious concepts that are important to an individual. These include love, respect, friendship, creativity, honesty, devotion, peacefulness, and understanding. The concept “spiritual” comes from the words “spirit”, “soul”. This is evidence that you need to appreciate the spiritual qualities of people.
Any individual, to one degree or another, depends on material wealth. But you cannot put material well-being above spiritual principles.
With age, priorities change. This happens under the influence of surrounding people and events that have occurred. At preschool age, children value friendship, parental love, and they do not care what material objects surround them or whether their friends are rich. During school and adolescence, boys and girls pay attention to the level of income of their own and other people’s parents. Often spiritual and moral principles fade into the background. At an older age, the realization comes that money cannot buy trust, love, honesty, and moral values become a priority. It is important to instill in children kindness, the ability to understand and sympathize from an early age.
Types of moral ideals
Types of spiritual and moral values:
- Meaningful. They reflect the worldview of the people and their attitude towards their culture. They shape personality and help determine attitudes towards people around them and the whole world.
- Moral. These values regulate relationships between people. These include the concepts of kindness, politeness, mutual assistance, honor, loyalty, and patriotism. Thanks to moral concepts, the famous saying appeared: “Do unto people as you would have them do unto you.”
- Aesthetic. This type of value implies spiritual comfort. It occurs when the individual has self-realized and is in harmony with himself and the world around him. Aesthetic values include the concepts of the sublime, beautiful, tragic and comic.
Basic Spiritual Concepts
Kind people are happier than others, because by doing good they bring joy and benefit to the world and help others. The basis of good deeds is compassion, selflessness and the desire to help. Such people are respected and loved.
Beauty
Only a talented person can see beauty in the world around him and convey it to others. Beauty inspires creative people to create works of art. Many artists, poets, performers and musicians try to find this important landmark.
True
This value leads to self-knowledge and the search for answers to important moral questions. Truth helps people separate good from evil, understand relationships, and analyze their actions. Thanks to the truth, humanity has created a set of moral laws and rules of conduct.
Art
Art makes a huge contribution to personal development. It encourages you to think outside the box and unlock your inner potential. Thanks to art, the range of interests of an individual expands and allows him to develop spiritually and see beauty. Artists throughout history have contributed to culture and everyday life.
Creation
This spiritual need helps the individual realize individual talents, develop and strive for high things. Creativity promotes the manifestation of abilities for the benefit of society. Creative figures tend to transform the world; they move towards something new, think more broadly and productively, leaving behind:
- cultural monuments;
- literature;
- painting.
All these things together influence society and encourage other people to develop and not stand still. In everyday life, creative individuals help progress transform the world around us.
Love
This is one of the first moral guidelines that a person encounters. Parental, friendly love, love for the opposite sex gives rise to many emotions. Under the influence of love, other values are formed:
- empathy;
- loyalty;
- respect.
Existence is impossible without it.
Spiritual values and concepts play an important role in the life of every individual and people as a whole, accompanying them throughout their lives.
Class hour: “Spiritual values”
Goals:
Educational: introduce children to the concept of “values”, reveal the main types of values from a life position and from a scientific point of view, form an idea of the list of values, compare the meaning of material and spiritual values;
Educational: to help children realize what is the true wealth of the human heart, to show the individuality of each child;
Developmental: develop thinking, memory, attention, speech.
Equipment: projector, presentation, envelopes with cards, two boxes, pearls, cards with a dictionary, jewelry, vase.
Dictionary: happiness, values, material, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, physical.
Lesson plan:
1. Organizational moment
2. Interactive conversation
3. Main part
4. Summing up
5. Reflection
Progress of the lesson:
I.Org.moment:
Teacher: Hello, dear guys!
Students: Hello!
II. Interactive conversation:
Teacher: Another school year begins for us. You have become a whole year older! Today, at our first class hour, I would like to talk about human values!
Teacher: At all times and in all corners of the globe, people have wanted and want to be happy. What do you think happiness is?
Student: Happiness is when dreams come true. Happiness is when there are close people nearby. etc.
Teacher: Every person on Earth dreams of happiness. Sometimes a dream becomes a life goal that a person tries to fulfill in order to feel happy.
Students: You need to set goals for yourself and achieve them.
Teacher: How to become happy?
Students: Try to do everything correctly and honestly.
Just love and be loved.
III. Main part:
Teacher: You said everything correctly. Everything you talked about is called life values. Life values help a person become happy.
What do you think values are?
Students: Something valuable to a person.
Teacher: Values are something important, necessary for a person. Anything you want can be a value.
Teacher: I have two chests. What is put in chests?
Students: They put jewelry and money in the chest.
Teacher: Look, there are also jewelry in one of the chests.
What can you put in another chest? What wealth is in a person's heart?
Students: Kindness. Love. Respect. Honesty. Joy. Modesty.
Teacher: Can we put all these valuables in our chest?
Students: No
Teacher: Why do you think we put them in another chest?
Students: Because we can't touch them.
Because these are feelings, not objects.
Teacher: Then let's do this. The first chest contains pearl beads. Let every pearl be one of the values that lives in the heart. I take one pearl and put it in an empty chest. Let it be love. Which one of you wants to put a pearl?
Students: (Children take pearls, name their life value, put it in a chest)
Teacher: Do you think we have put all the riches of the human heart in a chest?
Let's ask our parents to help us fill the chest with those qualities that we have forgotten.
Teacher: So, we have two chests. In one there is richness that we can touch, while in others we can only feel it.
This is how a person divides values into material and spiritual.
But scientists distinguish 4 groups.
Intellectual values are values that help a person find new knowledge.
Physical values are everything that is needed for the human body.
Emotional – everything that is connected with a person’s feelings.
Spiritual values are everything that is connected with a person’s ideas, with his faith.
Teacher: Everyone has sheets of paper on their table on which all the values are listed. What can be classified as physical assets?
Our body needs all this, which is why these values are called physical. Write them down next to “physical values.”
Students: Money, health, food, entertainment, good looks, travel, vacations.
Teacher: The next group is emotional values.
These values are associated with emotions and feelings and are therefore called emotional. Also, list them.
Students: Respect, responsibility, help, argument, love, friendship, interest.
Teacher: Choose the three most important values for you
The next group of values is intellectual.
Everything related to obtaining new knowledge and new information.
Students: complexity, reading, communication, intelligence, planning, learning
Teacher: Choose the 3 most important values for you.
Teacher: And the last group is spiritual values.
Everything related to the beauty, soul and faith of a person.
Choose the 3 most important values for you.
Students: creativity, freedom, faith, truth, harmony.
Teacher: How many values did you choose?
Students: We chose 12 values
Teacher: But a person’s list of values can include from 3 to 7 values.
Leave only the necessary, most important and main values.
Look carefully at each of you's lists of values. Did you get the same lists?
Students: No, different.
Teacher: Why do you think they are different?
Students: Because we are all different.
IV. Result:
Teacher: So what are values?
Students: This is something important, necessary for a person.
Teacher: What are the values that you can touch called?
Students: They can be called material assets.
Teacher: What about the values that live in our hearts?
Students: These are spiritual values.
Teacher: What 4 groups can all values be divided into?
Students: All values can be divided into physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual values.
Teacher: How many values can a “list of values” include?
Students: The list of values includes from 3 to 7 values.
V.Reflection:
Teacher: How did you work in class today?
Students: We worked well.
Teacher: Now tell me how you feel when you do a great job in class.
Students: Cheerful, joyful, very pleasant, warm at heart.
Teacher: What are you like at this moment?
Students: In the sunshine!
Teacher: I would like you to always be like the sun, which gives light and warmth, as this big sun does. Its warmth and light are enough for each of us.
Goodbye, have a sunny day and good mood everyone!
Students: Goodbye!
Culture- the totality of all types of transformative activities of man and society, as well as the results of this activity, embodied in material and spiritual
values. Values are understood as material and ideal objects that can satisfy any needs of a person, class, society, and serve their interests and goals. The world of values is diverse - these are natural, ethical, aesthetic and other systems. Value systems are historical and, as a rule, hierarchical. One of the highest levels of such a hierarchy is occupied by universal human values. Emphasizing the difference between material and spiritual values, many researchers distinguish between material and spiritual culture.
Under material culture refers to the totality of material goods, the means and forms of their production, and methods of mastering them.
Spiritual culture defined as the totality of all knowledge, forms of thinking, spheres of ideology (philosophy, ethics, law, politics, etc.) and methods of activity to create spiritual values. The social nature of culture is due to the fact that culture is an integral aspect of the life of society and is inseparable from man as a social being. There can be no society without culture, just as there can be no culture without society. Therefore, from a philosophical point of view, the everyday understanding of culture that we often encounter is incorrect: “This is an uncultured person, he does not know what culture is.” By saying this, they usually mean that the person in question is poorly brought up or insufficiently educated. However, from the point of view of philosophy, a person is always cultured, because he is a social being, and society without culture does not exist. Any society always creates an appropriate culture, i.e. a set of material and spiritual values and methods of their production. Moreover, the degree of development of culture depends on the specific historical stage of development of society, the conditions in which humanity develops, and the opportunities it has.
Culture is the cement of the building of social life, because it is transmitted from one person to another in the process of socialization and contacts with other cultures, and forms in people a sense of belonging to a certain group. Members of the same cultural group experience mutual understanding, trust and empathy with each other to a greater extent than
"outsiders". Their shared feelings are reflected in slang and jargon, favorite foods, fashion, and other aspects of culture. But culture not only strengthens solidarity between people. It can cause conflicts within and between groups. This can be illustrated by the example of language - the main element of culture. On the one hand, the possibility of communication contributes to the unity of members of a social group, and on the other hand, a common language excludes those who do not speak this language or speak slightly differently.
High culture - fine art, classical music and literature - was created and perceived by the elite. Popular culture, which included fairy tales, folklore, songs, etc., belonged mainly to the poor. The products of each of these cultures were intended for certain social groups, and this tradition was rarely violated. With the advent of the media (radio, television, mass printed publications, the Internet), the differences between high and folk culture were erased, and a mass culture emerged that is not associated with religious or class subcultures. A culture becomes “mass” when its product is standardized and disseminated among the general population.
All societies have subgroups that have different cultural values and traditions. The system of norms and values that distinguish a group from the majority of society is called a subculture; it is formed under the influence of factors such as social class, ethnic origin, age, religion, place of residence, etc. The values of a subculture influence the formation of the personality of subgroup members.
Cultural regulation of human activity is carried out through a system of values. Unlike norms that must be followed, values imply the choice of a particular object, state, need, goal that determine a person’s status in society. Values help society and people to separate good and bad, ideal, truth and error, beauty and ugliness, fair and unfair, permissible and forbidden, essential and inessential, etc.
7.6. Spiritual values of a person
The scope of such concepts as interest, need, desire, duty, ideal, orientation and motivation is narrower than the concept of “value”. Interest or need usually refers to socially determined drives associated with the socio-economic status of various social strata, groups or individuals; in this case, the remaining values (ideals) are just an abstract reflection of interests.
A gap may arise between value and everyday orientations - a discrepancy between duty and desire, the proper and the practically realizable, the ideally recognized state and real life conditions. A person can master the discrepancy between recognizing the high significance of a value and its unattainability in different ways. He may see the reason in external circumstances, the actions of rivals or enemies, or in his own lack of activity and effectiveness. A classic example of a dramatic discrepancy between a value and action aimed at achieving it is given by W. Shakespeare’s tragedy “Hamlet”. Almost until the very end of the play, the Danish prince delays action (and if he acts, it is situational, according to his mood) - and not only in order to once again confirm the crime committed by the king, but also because he deeply doubts the need to act . In contrast, the hero of the novel F.M. Dostoevsky's “Crime and Punishment” Rodion Raskolnikov not only convinced himself that the life of the “harmful old woman” has no value, but actually kills her, and this entails deep repentance.
An important means of bridging the gap between value and behavior is will, which removes hesitation and uncertainty and forces a person to act. Will can manifest itself both as an internal drive and as an external strong motivation in the form of an order.
Classification of values. Any classification of values by type and level is conditional due to the fact that social and cultural meanings are introduced into it. In addition, it is difficult to attribute one or another value that has its own polysemy (for example,
Chapter 7. Personal spirituality as a universal human value
mer, family), to a certain class. Nevertheless, we can give the following conditionally ordered classification of values:
ABOUT vital - life, health, physicality, safety, well-being, physical condition of a person (fullness, peace, vigor), strength, endurance, quality of life, natural environment (ecological values), practicality, consumption, comfort, level of consumption, etc.;
O social - social status, status, industriousness, wealth, work, profession, family, patriotism, tolerance, discipline, enterprise, risk-taking, social equality, gender equality, ability to achieve, personal independence, active participation in society, orientation towards the past or future, local (soil) or super-local (state, international) orientation;
O political - freedom of speech, civil liberties, statehood, legality, order, constitution, civil peace;
O moral - goodness, goodness, love, friendship, duty, honor, honesty, selflessness, decency, fidelity, mutual assistance, justice, respect for elders, love for children;
O religious - God, divine law, faith, salvation, grace, ritual, Holy Scripture and Tradition, church;
ABOUT aesthetic- beauty (or, on the contrary, the aesthetics of the ugly), ideal, style, harmony, following tradition or novelty, eclecticism, cultural originality or imitation of prestigious borrowed fashion.