The Universal value and your unique value

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You're working me

Those are difficult but good questions.

A little abstract piece:

Better overall value: Education or an attainment of accurate knowledge, enables a "higher quality." For example, in the past, there was a shift in thinking on slave ownership: This prior behavior stemmed from a lack of anthropological knowledge,( in that we are all the same); they were thought of as inferior or not of the same kind - (as animals) - thus empowering this travesty. Not thought of as being of the "same kind," inhibited empathy, thus, this immoral travesty.

Modern application: Elimination of ignorance, such as "world fundie violence," would come through education, (as one way) - better universal value - better unique value.

O, thank you so much!

How did you work it out with the first example?

I am surprised, I am amazed.

Thank you for saying that

I suddenly understood it now!

Let us think about it in some other ways Let's inspire each other ! !

Please give me a question.. and I will give you one or some, as long as I can think out one!

For a better, healthier brain!! !!

We seems cannot do anything else, can we?

And if so, what should we do? For improve ourselves...

Reading? Meditating?

Alas...

Why our theories can fade a little bit in our real life...

Value..? Or we just do what we like....

Theory and practise. The hardest question exists.

I surrender, for I can never find an answer for that...

Universal values? an interesting proposition especially once refined to a universal set of human values.

To my mind the only trully universal values we share we also share with the rest of life on earth, they are the primary concerns of maintenance of the flesh and propagation of the species, the refinement of and expression of these concerns as a group are expressed and evolve as culture and vary from one social/geographical grouping to another and evolve over time.

The core foundation is that we are all fairly physically vulnerable but highly 'intelligent' primates and this means that we are nescasarily social and fortunately adaptive, our success until recently was founded on this communality of spirit and effectively altruistic behaviour - we had no choice as isolation meant death and those who gathered a 'higher reward' [pleasure?] from such behaviour repeated it more often achieving greater success for their group and so on, so this socialistic behaviour in order to succeed as an individual in continuing to exist and propagate ones genetic line could be seen as our 'core universal value'.

However different environments and individuals comprising the group led to subtle variations and divergences of expression, a difference in culture [that which is handed as knowledge from one generation to the next]. This has led to sub sets of values that attempt to serve the same origional core universal value but in different ways. Each of us has been raised within one of these subsets.

Now, things get complex, since the age of mass communication and increased mobility individuals have encountered a much more diverse range of 'cultural' stimuli. Certain personality types who are inclined to question and challenge the norms around them [an essential group who form part of the leading edge of thinkers and inovators] have since the age of reason given the question of the individual in relation to ones group much more thought, the freedom of the illusion of disconnection created by specialisation and abundance were certainly contributive to this 'libertine' innovation.

I have not read the thinkers you mention and I hope I have gotten the right end of the stick with regard the intention of this thread but assuming I have, what do I think?

As you can no doubt gather from my reasoning [here and in other posts] I attempt to maintain a very wide vision and am reluctant to accept absolutist or reductionist arguments over anything - especially this kind of question.
I see humans as first and foremost beings of flesh, each one managed by a conciousness or ego that by nescessity sees itself as seperate to everything around it as in actual fact the 'meat being' is. However as I mentioned this 'meat being' is vulnerable and has a primary urge to find a mate in order to procreate, this has led to the development of social behaviour which in turn has led to the exchange of information, inovation and the evolution of culture.
Now, not all of our cultural expression is merely functional, we are sensory beings and have developed great levels of intelligence which has led to art and abstract thought which has no nessasary collective requirements. It has by virtue of it's being non essential room for totally individual expression and appeal. This leads to individual or unique values in asthetics and behavioural modes

Does/do my 'unique individual value/values' take precedence over group or universal values? Not in any utilatarian sense. however where there is no conflict between by responsibility to the origional primary needs of my grouping and my individual freedom then 'do what thou will' shall be the whole of the law. Now this is no simple quandry, one must consider deeply any new choice and weigh it up against precedent and choose carefully, if there will be no victim then how can there possibly be any crime?

peace j

p.s thanks for challenging my brain anf getting it firing

The universal human values are water, sunlight and air.

ruveyn

The Universal value and your unique value are the same thing to me. I do whattever i'm doing with only answers not problems as solutions and its worked out well for me