Modern moral values are an essential part of people's life. This has not always been the case. At the primitive level, when there was no science, little attention was paid to morality.
As it was in the early days
The Middle Ages propagated those moral values that were in close contact with religion, which at that time occupied a dominant position. Increased attention was paid to divine revelation and dogma, and Holy Scripture was studied. They treated science with caution, did not do the best with the authors of the works, sent them to the fire. The Inquisition had very specific moral standards.
Types of values
It is not so easy to classify the whole variety of ideas about correct behavior. Highest moral values are viewed from different angles of view, depending on the situation in which they arose and existed.
When classifying priorities, they usually rely on the sphere of society, the bearers of various views, the mechanism by which they build a hierarchy of vital areas for them. The three main groups, which include things that are paramount for people, are aspects of the spiritual and material world, as well as the socio-political environment.
What people value
Moral values belong to the subjective (spiritual) sphere. It implies recommendatory and evaluative, normative representations, which should normalize the ways of human expression against the background of nature and society. You can believe in true and false ideas.
In fact, one value or another is as important as they attach importance to. Every moral norm has its own function and the purpose of its creation. As a rule, this is the regulation of relations between people.
Critical is culture. It combines the spiritual, material, political and social aspects. By focusing on certain things, moral values demonstrate how, following the right path, one can achieve one's own goals, realize needs and creative potential. Thus, the talents of the individual are revealed.
Thread in time
Moral values are a link of generations that allows elders to pass on experience to the heirs, share what they have achieved and push them towards further movement and progress. Based on such a foundation, new people create their priorities and improve existing ones. In relation to culture, moral values include the ideal to which one should strive, as well as one or another property of a thing that brings it closer to the best state.
It is also worth noting that views can be individual, collective, group, universal, national. Personal moral values are how important an object, idea or phenomenon is in the eyes of a certain person. It all depends on the level of knowledge, tastes, habits, inclinations, other personality characteristics.
Each individual attaches great importance to this aspect of his life, but also relies heavily on the opinion of society. Therefore, the values accepted by a group of people, which he accepts and shares. In order for a team, organization or society to exist harmoniously, they must have that important, reverent attitude towards which they can be divided.
People with similar emphasis and priorities tend to find a common language much better. Thus, individuals are rallying aimed at similar goals.
Unity of peoples
In the scale of peoples and humanity, in a general sense, significance is also attached to certain objects.The whole society decides what is of paramount importance to it. A value-normative system is drawn up. Society is developing, its individual members interact with each other. If ideals and interests are similar, then the interaction is fruitful, favorable and productive. The people should have one goal, priorities in social and political life. Collectively worked out mechanisms for achieving common goals.
As a rule, they attach great importance to social justice, civic duty, the wealth of spiritual life, human dignity, and material well-being. Ideally, people care about what is happening with the world around them: are resources used correctly, is politics wisely implemented, are wars waged, and what is the state of the economy?
What is important and priority today
In the modern world, universal values must have a higher priority. There is a special hierarchy that arranges life values in three steps. The decisive factor is the role played by one aspect or another in public life. Values of secondary importance are noted. That is, without them, society could survive and function.
A separate group is the elements of everyday life on the spiritual and material plane. They are needed in order to properly meet the needs of a person of the most diverse kind in the process of his existence. Thus, so that he has the opportunity to lead a prosperous life and constantly develop.
The third group is the highest order values. This category includes those needs that make up the foundation of relations and the circulation of resources in society.
Higher Order Priorities
Higher values - this is what has the character characteristic of all mankind. Attention is paid to peace, public order, freedom, friendship, trust, work, creation, life, honesty, kindness, love, kinship, creativity, knowledge of the truth, health, courage and fidelity. Of great importance is patriotism, which is an essential condition for the desire of people to defend their homeland, to bear the duty of a warrior.
All of the above, as a rule, becomes the result of traditions prevailing in one community or another. The wider the complex of tasks that people solve together becomes, the higher they value duty and responsibility. High importance today is played by discipline and the ability to answer for one’s words and actions. A major role is played by work, the quality performance of one's duties, and the benefits brought to the world in which a person lives. When a person is not involved in work, he cannot organically develop and improve. The fulfillment of certain tasks has a huge social role. Education takes place, endowing the working people with a common consciousness.
Value of labor
It is through the work done that a person can realize himself and do better. The people are civilized as much as they respect and love labor. At the same time, the individual must feel the importance of what he is doing, to benefit himself and other people, while applying his best sides and creatively realizing himself.
The realization that your talents and abilities are applicable to the world around and in demand makes a person harmonious and happy.
Society is constantly changing, and with it become the values that it lives on. Sometimes it’s hard to decide what is more important and paramount, you have to break. Each person must decide for himself what is important for him, set priorities, then it will be easier to set goals and take steps to implement them.
