A Question of Values

Foreword by M. Scott Peck

Acknowledgments

Part One: Personal Values

1. The Initial Question

2. Sorting It Out: How We Choose Our Values

Part Two: Four Basic Mental Modes and the Value Systems Associated With Them

3. Value Systems Based on Sense Experience

4. Value Systems Based on Logic

5. Value Systems Based on Emotion

6. Value Systems Based on Intuition

Part Three: Two of the Most Important Synthetic Mental Modes and the Value Systems Associated With Them

7. Value Systems Based on Authority

8. Value Systems Based on “Science”

Part Four: Variations on a Theme (Including Other Examples of Synthetic Value Systems)

9. The Cross-Fertilization of Values

10. Four Highly Personal SyntheticValue Systems Closely Linked to Traditional Religions and

Grounded Either in Emotion or Sense Experience: Barth, Einstein, Gandhi, Meir

11. Why Values Get So Complicated

Part Five: Values in the Classroom

12. Teaching Directly about Values

13. Political Value Systems or Ideologies (Taught, Reflected, or Alluded to in Undergraduate Courses) That Express Sense Experience, Logic, and Especially Emotion

14. Economic Value Systems or Ideologies (Taught, Reflected, or Alluded to in Undergraduate Courses) That

Express Sense Experience, Logic, and Especially Emotion

15. Philosophical Value Systems (Taught, Reflected, or Alluded to in Undergraduate Courses) That Express Logic Plus

16. Value Systems Associated with Literary Criticism (Taught, Reflected, or Alluded to in Undergraduate Courses)  That Express Sense Experience Plus

Part Six: Epilogue

17. A Personal Note

A Short Encyclopedia of Value Systems Including 74 Value Systems Described in This Book

Sources

Sources Keyed to the Text

Index