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Table 2
Categories of Description

VALUES

PRACTICAL IDEALISTIC

An Ordinary Person’s
Good Life Getting Along Respect As Such

Work Fairness, justice Respect for others Goodness
Home Candor Honesty Truth

Religion Tolerance Trust Beauty
Fatherland Resilience Self-esteem

Nature Courage Empathy

Environment Responsibility Optimism
Rules Humor Mental development

Safety Creativeness Emotional intelligence

Leisure, culture

The above rearrangement of values entices one to add a few nuances, such as
Audi (2007) mentioning that values cannot be seen or measured quantitatively.
Turunen (1992) would pick the values, at least those in the columns of Getting Along
and Respect, and call them ideals, and in his classification (p. 22), goodness, truth
and beauty are essential, traditional Platonic values, which can be pursued but not
finally achieved.
Considering the 226 responses to the questions regarding personal values (Tables
1 and 2; Figure 3), Ronnow-Rasmussen (2011) added another type of personal value.
He introduced the term vividly: When tidying his desk, he found a small poem written
by his daughter years ago. He could not throw it away—it had some value for him.
There is a distinction between value and value-for: a distinction between impersonal
and personal value. For example, many people value wild nature or a just world.
These facts or states of affair are just valuable, having no person-relative values.
Ronnow-Rasmussen (2011) referred to an attitudinal rather than normative element
when personal value is defined: a “for-someone’s-sake” (FSS) attitude is directed
towards objects of personal value. Attitudes are not only desires or preferences but
include “thicker” attitudes such as admiration, respect, and love. For example, the
previously noted Getting Along and Respect are essentially several FSS attitudes.
One perhaps unusual response was Emotional Intelligence—the value
conception chosen only by the mayor of the city. According to Goleman (1998), it is
possible for anybody to learn practical skills based on five categories of emotional
intelligence: self-knowledge, motivation, self-control, empathy, and taking care of
social relationships. Emotional intelligence does not guarantee that one has learned
the emotional skills needed at work; it might only indicate one’s chances of learning
them. Goleman presents two types of emotional skills: personal and social.

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