Forming Values Through Understanding, Feeling and Action
1. VALUES FORMATION AND YOU
“Education in values means the
cultivation of effectivity, leading
the educand through exposure to
an experience of value and of the
valuable.”— R. Aquino
2. TO BE MORAL IS TO BE HUMAN. LIVING BY THE
RIGHT VALUES HUMANIZES.
3. IS THERE SUCH THING AS RIGHT,
UNCHANGING AND UNIVERSAL VALUE?
12. THE LIVING EXAMPLES OF GOOD
MEN AND WOMEN AT HOME, SCHOOL AND
SOCIETY HAVE FAR GREATER INFLUENCE ON
OUR VALUE FORMATION THAN THOSE WELL-
PREPARED LECTURES ON VALUES EXCELLENTLY
DELIVERED BY EXPERTS WHO MAY SOUND LIKE
“EMPTY GONGS AND CLANGING CYMBALS”
18. “IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO KNOW WHAT HONESTY
IS OR WHY ONE SHOULD BE HONEST. ONE HAS
TO FEELSOMETHING TOWARDS HONESTY, AS
PREFERABLE TO DISHONESTY.”
-AQUINO (1990)
36. “THE HABIT OF YIELDING TO
IMPULSERESULTS IN THE
ENFEEBLEMENT OF SELF-CONTROL.”
37. “HABITUAL YIELDING TO ANY VICE, WHILE IT
DOES NOT LESSEN MAN’S RESPONSIBILITY,
DOES DIMINISH HIS ABILITYTO RESIST
TEMPTATION.”
38. “LIKEWISE, THE MORE FREQUENTLY MAN
RESTRAINS IMPULSE… PERSISTS AGAINST
TEMPTATION… THE MORE DOES HE INCREASE
HIS SELF-CONTROL., AND THEREFORE,
HIS FREEDOM.”
39. “TO HAVE A STRONG WILL MEANS TO
HAVE CONTROLOF THE WILL, TO BE ABLE
TO DIRECT IT DESPITE ALL CONTRARY
IMPULSES.”
42. PLEASURE
VALUES
– PLEASANT VS. UNPLEASANT
– AGREEABLE VS. DISAGREEABLE
• SENSUAL
FEELINGS
• EXPERIENCES
OF PLEASURE
AND PAIN
43. VITAL
VALUES – VALUES PERTAINING TO THE WELL
BEING EITHER OF THE INDIVIDUAL
OR OF THE COMMUNITY
– VALUES OF VITAL FEELING
• HEALTH
• VITALITY
• CAPABILITY
• EXCELLENCE
44. SPIRITUAL
VALUES – VALUES INDEPENDENT OF THE
WHOLE SPHERE OF THE BODY AND
OF THE ENVIRONMENT;
– GRASPED IN THE SPIRITUAL ACT OF
PREFERRING, LOVING AND HATING
• AESTHETIC
VALUES
• RIGHT/WRONG
• VALUES OF
PURE
KNOWLEDGE
45. VALUES OF
THE HOLY
– APPEAR ONLY IN REGARD TO
OBJECTS INTENTIONALLY GIVEN AS
“ABSOLUTE OBJECTS”
• BELIEF
• ADORATION
• BLISS