What is a meaningful purpose of Value in values we are creating or adopting?

Question

What...that is it? finita la philosophy? 25+ minutes and there is no even letter appear...don't tell me that a question is stupid, it is not.

Answer 1

semantics, teleology, meta-axiology

railroooooooooooad.

Heroic kind of question, despite.
To attempt: If there is any "we" in this moment, we are not attentive to our values. They SERVE other functions, namely the perpetuation of the mode of production. Various institutions. the war-machine. They come After, not before all the contingencies.

Answer 2

"Meaningful," can go either way here ...

Values seem to be diminishing, which is why we have to create or adopt new ones. What people hold dear to them, are a lot different now, than in the past.

It once was, people valued themselves and people close to them. As we have progressed, more and more people are turning away from personal dignity and their moral value, to a "devil may care" attitude. Friends and family are often treated as "fair weather friends" instead of a bond with more integrity, as once was.

Instant Gratification, has replaced the precept of, "Good things come to those who wait." That waiting, was once the factor to fulfillment and accomplishment.

We now value time, in measurements of it's swiftness. This swift manner of doing things has lost the value of labor, which once gave someone Pride in doing the task.

What we have learned to value today, would surely be humanity's downfall should a global catastrophe occur. People would simply be lost if the Plug were pulled. (A Sun Spot could well do that.) Chaos would no doubt be rampant.

Tradition is almost a thing of the past, (those things handed down through the generations,) because of these Values we now find so meaningful which we are creating or adopting today.

Other than humanity setting itself up for the big fall, I don't know of any other "meaningful purpose."

Answer 3

In my opinion, there is no meaningful purpose of Value.

We have created this great conflict, where our instincts are pulling us one way while these forced-on values pull us another. we haven't explored the causal level of the matter. As long as we ignore our instincts and suppress them, they will show up in one way or another.

These instincts need to be confronted and I believe if this is truly done, then one can achieve a 'state of being' such that virtues and values become natural. The state where we can feel oneness with the world and everyone and everything in it. If a person achieves this state, of self-realization, there would be no need for him/her to attend a value ed class!