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Type Book Chapter
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Values and the Human Being
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Jan Cieciuch
  • Shalom H Schwartz
Editors
  • Martijn van Zomeren
  • John F Dovidio
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Booktitle The Oxford Handbook of the Human Essence
Place of Publication Oxford
Publisher Oxford University Press
Page Range 219 - 231
Date 2017
Date Annual Report 2018
Abstract Text This chapter examines psychological and philosophical traditions in the study of values. It explores two perspectives on values that are useful for thinking about their role in understanding what it means to be human. The internal perspective focuses on the roles values play in the psychological functioning of people and how they relate to human essence. The external perspective describes how values are produced and acquired both in phylogenesis and in ontogenesis and how that contributes to human essence. It is suggested that the phylogenetic perspective explains the pan-cultural agreement in value hierarchies and the ontogenetic perspective explains both the assimilation of the cultural system of values and inter-individual diversity. The chapter also considers relations between personality and values and the metaphysical interpretation of values. Finally, it reflects on the relevance of values to human essence.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190247577.013.11
Other Identification Number merlin-id:15556
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