Universal value

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A value is a universal value if it has the same value or worth for all,
or almost all, people. Spheres of human value encompass morality, aesthetic preference,
human traits, human endeavour, and social order. Whether universal values exist is an unproven
conjecture of moral philosophy and cultural anthropology, though it is clear that certain values are
found across a great diversity of human cultures, such as primary attributes of physical
attractiveness (e.g. youthfulness, symmetry) whereas other attributes (e.g. slenderness)
are subject to aesthetic relativism as governed by cultural norms. This objection is not limited to
aesthetics. Relativism concerning morals is known as moral relativism, a philosophical stance
opposed to the existence of universal moral values.
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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