Critiquing Objective Values
If we cannot provide grounds or justification for the identification of objective value, then we cannot also provide any coherent argument or justification or defense for the idea of the dignity of the person. Since in order to the idea of human dignity be accepted, we must first justify or provide grounds that there is a universal values and conduct across and within people, cultures, nations, and races. Considering this, the education for the value of life becomes important. Because if people are relative and subjective to what they uphold as good or bad and views they the value or worth of the human person differently then we cannot find objective agreement or justification for the dignity of every human person. That is why, the value of life must inculcate to people, to the next generation and the next.
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This was not, however, to eradicate people’s value and change it as this was also a violation of their rights and dignity but to nourish it, to educate, to develop them.
In Lewis writing, this is equivalent to “…not to cut down jungles but to irrigate dessert.” “The right defense against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments.” The importance of culture must be valued as we must value the dignity of every human person regarding of his race, religion, belief, ethnicity, culture, political views, and nationality.
Additionally, in the writing of C.S. Lewis, he identifies some intercultural, intercontinental and intergenerational values and views of people; from (St.) Augustine to Aristotle and Plato, to Confucius, from the Greeks, Hindu, Chinese, to medieval civilizations. This can be a justification of universal values in which also may be the foundation of ethics. Although that culture have differ in their dresses, preferences, dances, music, and appearances, we cannot denied that across this cultures there essential
values that may be fundamentally basic and common. The Greeks, for example, laid down the foundation of what known to be as ethics in the minds of their philosophers. In Judeo-Christian-Muslim tradition, there is a Ten Commandments that was sent to them by God to become their guide in everyday living. In Asia, particularly Indus valley civilization, the Hindus believe in the Rta or correctness and righteousness. Siddhartha Gautama also known as The Buddha taught is disciples to practice in their everyday life the concept of the eight-fold path. In Chinese civilization, their philosopher speaks of the Tao or the way. In Asian also, the teaching of the middle way which teach that too much and too less is bad for a person. The example above only shows that across space and time, people have develop the kind of knowledge and wisdom to point out what is good and bad, what is right and evil, what is pleasing and displeasing. These can be a basis for the assumption that there is fundamentally sameness in the nature of every person and can posit the idea of an objective value. That even though people came across from different places and has different experiences they still have in common with each other, probably conscience, that can identify a universal and objective value that can be the basis for the dignity of the human person.
This was not, however, to eradicate people’s value and change it as this was also a violation of their rights and dignity but to nourish it, to educate, to develop them.
In Lewis writing, this is equivalent to “…not to cut down jungles but to irrigate dessert.” “The right defense against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments.” The importance of culture must be valued as we must value the dignity of every human person regarding of his race, religion, belief, ethnicity, culture, political views, and nationality.
Additionally, in the writing of C.S. Lewis, he identifies some intercultural, intercontinental and intergenerational values and views of people; from (St.) Augustine to Aristotle and Plato, to Confucius, from the Greeks, Hindu, Chinese, to medieval civilizations. This can be a justification of universal values in which also may be the foundation of ethics. Although that culture have differ in their dresses, preferences, dances, music, and appearances, we cannot denied that across this cultures there essential
values that may be fundamentally basic and common. The Greeks, for example, laid down the foundation of what known to be as ethics in the minds of their philosophers. In Judeo-Christian-Muslim tradition, there is a Ten Commandments that was sent to them by God to become their guide in everyday living. In Asia, particularly Indus valley civilization, the Hindus believe in the Rta or correctness and righteousness. Siddhartha Gautama also known as The Buddha taught is disciples to practice in their everyday life the concept of the eight-fold path. In Chinese civilization, their philosopher speaks of the Tao or the way. In Asian also, the teaching of the middle way which teach that too much and too less is bad for a person. The example above only shows that across space and time, people have develop the kind of knowledge and wisdom to point out what is good and bad, what is right and evil, what is pleasing and displeasing. These can be a basis for the assumption that there is fundamentally sameness in the nature of every person and can posit the idea of an objective value. That even though people came across from different places and has different experiences they still have in common with each other, probably conscience, that can identify a universal and objective value that can be the basis for the dignity of the human person.