Service is not something you do. It is something you are.
Stella PaytonTags: service self values value business customer customer-service better-life-with-stella stella-payton
Facts and values are entangled in science. It's not because scientists are biased, not because they are partial or influenced by other kinds of interests, but because of a commitment to reason, consistency, coherence, plausibility and replicability. These are value commitments.
Alva NoëTags: science reason values consistency facts scientists bias interest plausibility coherence replication
One of the recent arguments from design, that based on the so-called fine-tuning life of some fundamental physical constants, founders on the following objections: an extremely small prior probability merited by the God of theism in light – if that is the right word – of the Problem of Evil; the fact that it is not unreasonable to place a substantial probability on the hypothesis that a future theory will fix those values; and the sheer incoherence of computations of the ‘chances’ of fine-tuning were there no fine-tuner.
Colin HowsonTags: reason philosophy atheism values theory probability hypothesis problem-of-evil coherence atheist-arguments argument-from-design-debunked fine-tuning-debunked god-of-theism
Late modern society is principally concerned with purchasing things, in ever greater abundance and variety, and so has to strive to fabricate an ever greater number of desires to gratify, and to abolish as many limits and prohibitions upon desire as it can. Such a society is already implicitly atheist and so must slowly but relentlessly apply itself to the dissolution of transcendent values. It cannot allow ultimate goods to distract us from proximate goods. Our sacred writ is advertising, our piety is shopping, our highest devotion is private choice. God and the soul too often hinder the purely acquisitive longings upon which the market depends, and confront us with values that stand in stark rivalry to the only truly substantial value at the center of the social universe: the price tag.
David Bentley HartTags: god consumerism values materialism moral-values
A democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.
Pope John Paul IITags: democracy values totalitarianism
We might think we know how we are being affected by the media—a book, a movie, a TV series. Ironically, this so-called awareness, the “third person effect,” is most common with, according to Gierzynski, “those with higher education.” He notes that “we think we know how the media affects us,” but in truth, it controls us more than we know.
Anthony GierzynskiPeople must be valued because of what they are rather than who they are.
M.F. MoonzajerTags: people values value what who
Are we truly committed to the notion that ideals and values vary and alter in accordance with changing conditions? Should we not question such a relativistic dogma? Is not the degree of our sensitivity to the validity of the ultimate ideals and values that fluctuates rather than the ultimate ideals and values?
Abraham Joshua HeschelTags: idealism ideals values relativism
Values carry the message of shared purposes, standards and conceptions of what is worth living for and what is worth striving for.
Anita RoddickTags: purpose values standards worth-living-for
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