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Context:   The claim for universal values can be understood in two different ways.
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    • First it could be that something has a universal value when everybody finds it valuable
    • According to Berlin "universal valuesare values that a great many human beings in the vast majority of places and situations at almost all times do in fact hold in common whether consciously and explicitly or as expressed in their behaviour" Second something could have universal value when all people have reason to believe it has value
Full context:   The claim for universal values can be understood in two different ways. First, it could be that something has a universal value when everybody finds it valuable. This was Isaiah Berlin's understanding of the term. According to Berlin, "...universal values....are values that a great many human beings in the vast majority of places and situations, at almost all times, do in fact hold in common, whether consciously and explicitly or as expressed in their behaviour..." Second, something could have universal value when all people have reason to believe it has value. Amartya Sen interprets the term in this way, pointing out that when Mahatma Gandhi argued that non-violence is a universal value, he was arguing that all people have reason to value non-violence, not that all people currently value non-violence. Many different things have been claimed to be of universal value, for example, fertility, pleasure, and democracy. The issue of whether anything is of universal value, and, if so, what that thing or those things are, is relevant to psychology, political science, and philosophy, among other fields.
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Universal value

universal value

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S. H. Schwartz
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Psychology
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scotty
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