Personhood Development

1. PERSONHOOD
DEVELOPMENT
VALUES 20A

2. MODULE 1
INTRODUCTION
 What is a value?
 Why is there a need for values?
 Can values be taught?
 Are values subjective or objective?
 Are values permanent or changeable?
 What are Filipino Values?

3. What is a Value?
 Value is something desirable, worth having,
worth possessing, worth keeping and worth
doing.
 Value is identical with good.

4. Why is there a need for values ?
 The crucial answer is for the sake of
survival, sanity, peace of mind; and this
explains why values is inseparable from life.

5. Can Values be Taught?
 Yes, the family is the primary carrier of
values. Values are passed on from parents
and elders. The growing child imitates every
actuation, speech, mannerism, disposition,
expression, etc. of those around him.

6. Are values subjective or objective?
 Both subjective and objective. Subjective
because there should be a subject to notice,
disclose, and recognize its being a value;
Objective because there should be essential
features inherent in a thing of value that
allure and appeal to a subject.

7. Are values permanent or changeable?
 Values are permanent, objective and
unchangeable.
 Carriers and transmitters of values are
relative, subjective and changeable.

8. What are Filipino Values?
 Are the things Filipinos consider good, important,
proper, suitable, worthy, right, acceptable, and
desirable in life.

9. Module 2
General Types of Values
Set A Types of Values
1. Appetitive value
2. Sensuous/sexual value
3. Aesthetic value
4. Intellectual value
5. Moral Value
6. Spiritual Value
7. Value of the Holy

10. Appetitive value
Refers to the desirable
nature of food and water that
satisfies one’s hunger and
thirst. Also known as survival
value.

11. Sensuous/Sexual Value
This correspond to sexual meaning in
as much as sexual desire can only be
satisfied by this value. It makes
women and men to work hard to the
bones, to make lot of sacrifices, to
love and to dream.

12. Aesthetic Value
This satisfies an individual’s aesthetic
desire or feeling of beholding a
beautiful thing or scenery, and
appreciating the work of art.

13. Intellectual Value
This fulfill the individual’s
intellectual desire. Being the only
animal gifted with reasons, man
desires to know.

14. Moral Value
Relates to conduct or character
viewed from the concept of right and
wrong. “It is better to be a human
dissatisfied than a pig satisfied”. –
John Stuart Mill

15. Spiritual Value
Corresponds to our spiritual feelings
such as those marked or
characterized by the highest qualities
of human mind.

16. Value of the Holy
Refers to the sacred and hallowed
beliefs, some things which are the
objects of worship or veneration. Holy
meant the divine or that which has
sanctity directly from the absolute
sphere.

17. Value of the Holy
Examples are:
1.value of cult
2.Value of religion
3.Value of worship
4.Value of sacrament
5.Value of prayer
6.Value of rosary
7.Value of the mass