Types of Values

There are different types of values as per ethics, including

1. Moral values: Moral values are principles or beliefs that guide individuals or groups on what is right or wrong behavior. Examples of moral values include honesty, integrity, justice, compassion, and respect for others.
2. Personal values: Personal values are beliefs or principles that individuals hold to be important in their own lives. Personal values are subjective and may vary from person to person. Examples of personal values include freedom, creativity, independence, and self-expression.
3. Social values: Social values are beliefs or principles that are important to society as a whole. Social values are often reflected in laws and regulations. Examples of social values include fairness, equality, and democracy.
4. Cultural values: Cultural values are beliefs or principles that are important to a particular cultural or ethnic group. Cultural values may include customs, traditions, and religious beliefs. Examples of cultural values include family values, respect for elders, and hospitality.
5. Environmental values: Environmental values are principles or beliefs that relate to the protection and preservation of the natural environment. Examples of environmental values include sustainability, conservation, and stewardship.
6. Trans-cultural Values: These are values that are similar in practice among different cultures throughout the whole world. These can be categorized as universal values since these values are followed across cultures.
7. Intrinsic Values: These are the ends in themselves, not the means for achieving some other end. In the hierarchy of human values, these values stand at the highest place and are superior to all other values of life. Examples include goodness, beauty, happiness, bliss, etc.
8. Instrumental Values: These are values that are useful in deriving some other benefit through them, such as economic gain or an increase in status. A subject is said to have instrumental value when it is pursued not for its own sake but for some ends beyond itself. Examples include education for success in life, political power to do public service, etc.
9. Aesthetic Values: These values seek to emulate the beauty of the Divine through the arts. Things and activities that give joy to beauty are aesthetic values. Examples include beauty, taste, architecture, etc.
10. Democratic Values: These values are characterized by respect for individuality, equal treatment to all, ensuring equal social, political, and religious rights to all, impartiality and social justice, and respect for democratic institutions.
11. Dis-Value: These are values that demoralize and undermine human growth and development. Examples include jealousy, envy, revenge, etc.