Quite often it happens that people with different vital values cannot understand and accept each other. One person sees the world from one foreshortening, another from other. But whether there is a uniform point, uniform value or even the whole system of values before which any person is ready to bend the head?
Society and person
Human values are first of all what society and each person separately aspires to because to follow the highest ideals which are put in subconsciousness is vital. Otherwise, the mankind will become obsolete. There is also it that in society the wrong human values are promoted. Nazi Germany is the most striking example. As a result it is possible to draw two conclusions. First, human values are put by society and those who manage it. Secondly, the wrong values lead to global death.
Human values can be divided into different categories. Many philosophers tried to do it. For example, Alfred Adler marked out physical, emotional and intellectual values. And the psychologist Gordon Ollport allocated the whole six categories. The simplest division is categories material and spiritual.
Anyway, it is necessary to understand that all human values concern each person separately, and he can perceive them somehow, depending on his moral principles.
Spiritual wings
"The belief in the supreme values and ideals allocates the person with spiritual wings" - D.S. Likhachev said. The person having high morals will try to follow the high purposes. But quite often there is a dissonance between personal values and values of society. It is considered that modern society has superconsumer potential. That money replaces love and kindness, and the new generation and time is guilty of everything. But fight between the value of material benefits and cultural wealth continues since very old time, and a lot more years will proceed. But you should not deny that society of consumers really exists. It occurs because the person who is not able to defend the moral principles has a substitution of values. Moral values change on benefit and requirement. But it is impossible to claim that the person who seeks to provide financially himself and the family, nizkomoralen. Really, without money it is difficult to live is necessary benefits. The difference is in what them has to be exactly so much how many is enough, it is no more in any way. The person should not put materiality above worthy highly moral life. The only way to save itself from process of substitution of values is to read qualitative literature. Books which are recognized as classics store in themselves answers to questions of the real values.
Likhachev's letters
D.S. Likhachev in the work "Letters about Kind and Fine" tries to open a concept of human values from some parties. He considers the most important value life: others, animals and plants. He says that life has no borders, and it is necessary to learn to feel and see intangible. Time and art which learns kindness – too the major values across Likhachev. For the separate people value is its culture and language, And for all mankind beauty and love. It is very difficult to speak about human values as at everyone these values. As a result of it to generalize and make the list of universal values also very difficult. Some philosophers say that universal values do not exist at all. But, anyway, they exist in each person living on the planet.