A Question of Values: Six Ways We Make the Personal Choices That Shape Our LivesWhat personal values are. How we decide about them. What the alternatives are. Seventy-eight value systems featured. Used in classrooms at Harvard and around the world. Praised by educators from Harvard, Yale, Stanford, the Institute for Advanced Study, the University of Virginia, Berea College and elsewhere. |
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The Initial Question | 3 |
Four Basic Mental Modes and | 21 |
Two of the Most Important Synthetic Mental | 93 |
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actually agrarianism American authority Barth basic behavior BELIEFS illustrative Bentham Bertrand Russell Bible C. P. Cavafy capitalism Catholic Christian church classical liberalism conscious mind conservatism contemporary criticism culture David Hume deductive logic defenses defined desire detachment discipline doctrine DOMINANT PERSONAL VALUE economic emotion especially ethics Eudora Welty evaluations and beliefs example facts faith feelings fundamentalist Harold Acton Harvard high sense experience human ibid idea individual intuition Jacobinism John Maynard Keynes Karl Barth Keynes kind Lawrence Durrell least live Montaigne moral philosophy Mortimer Adler objective one's philosopher pleasure political premise problem prodigal psychology questions religion religious scientific secular social society sociobiology Socrates specific Spinoza spiritual synthetic mental modes teaching technique Tennessee Williams things thought traditional true truth type of value University value systems Value Systems Based Walter Lippmann Washington Post Welty words York