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91 "Most people think that their deeply held values are the result of rational choice, but reason often has little to do with the way people form values."
The speaker asserts that under most circumstances, people usually do not form their value based on reason. In some cases, this may possibly be true. However, overall I hold a negative opinion toward such conclusion. Through formal education and cultivation, one cultivated person ususaly expresses more reasons but less self emotions to form his/her value.
I concede that people's some basic value which is mainly due to family influence and personal psychological activities have little to do with reason. At the early age, few children are able to control their thoughts and be proportionally arranged to the reason they should receive in order to resist their freedom to form value initially. For instance, patriotism are usually expressed a flow of love from citizen to their motherland. This kind of love can be trace back to every people's early age and education. The value that they should love more to the country they are born has been deeply rooted in people's heart when no reason ever occupies the part of this love. Hardly can we allocate patriotism to a value based on reason. Nor will people think whether my country is wealthy, strong or not. Because people receive unforgettably from an early age when no children can judge such notion's right or wrong. Yet, when children have grown up, they will know more about their motherland, the history and culture. Therefore patriotism will be more reasonable and rational based on more knowledge and experience.
However, there are two compelling reasons for me to agree with the reason's effect to decide people's value. The first is that as far as education concerns, it changes value in a more sophisticated way. There are lots of disciplines and knowledge that are to learn necessarily from a sense of reason. Through thinking, students will be able to pick up the right information they need and judge the characteristics of it, which will generally grow to be one part of value. For example, learning to science will promote students a kind of value that the world is changing due to the power of science for thousands of years. Contrarily, learning humanity courses will instill students one notion that without humanity and humanitarian spirit, the Earth would be terribly hazardous. Through a perspective of education, students are trained to critically accept different knowledge and get selective to the part they prefer to be right and acceptable.
The second reason is that values are limited in the realm of ethics and morality, which is established in the range of reasons but not personal emotion. Every people hold a yardstick to the world and judge the affair's reasonability. Undoubtedly, ethics deeply reflects human society standard and reason to limit over latitude and behavior, which conveys itself through education, cultures and laws. Hardly can we categorize our own value being personal because such value has been influenced generally by the whole social system and surroundings. To illustrate the notion, one need only to look the crime human value debases. Whatever it is, stealing, murdering, or deception , etc, criminals will not accepted as a comformist to the value in that their action break the subtle balance of reasons ruling the society.
Furthermore, the 'value system" is complicated ranging from different level of the society. From a national level, government is to build up legislation system for the sake of regulating citizen's behavior and thoughts to conform diverse background people to hold less diverse values. From a social level, morality and family education generally imparts the integrated reasons to hold a pure values for children and adults. At a personal perspective, one has never stopped his/her reasons to live on the world and act properly in accordance to the value.
In sum, the speaker's assertion is partially correct to conclude emotions potentially influencing children early life and education. However, with more knowledge and reason to teach aiming to be more critical and reasonable, one can abandon and decline any values out of impulse or emotions. Also facts have proved the necessary role for reason to act in a system of value from the country to oneself. |
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