value system
Guiding belief structure
A value system is the set of principles and beliefs that guide a person's or group's judgments about right and wrong, important and unimportant.
It shapes decisions and behavior: Her value system wouldn't let her look the other way.
Organizations and cultures have value systems too, sometimes explicit, sometimes assumed: The company's value system prioritizes profit over sustainability.
Study of right conduct
- moralsPrinciples of right conduct
- principlesFoundational moral beliefs
- integrityMoral soundness and consistency
- virtueMoral goodness or merit
honesty · fairness · justice · conscience · righteousness · decency · dignity · respect
Comprehensive belief framework
- ideologyStructured belief framework
- philosophyStudy of fundamental truths
- creedStatement of belief
- doctrineEstablished body of teachings
convictions · tenets · guiding principles · moral code · ethos · standards · norms · priorities
Custom passed through generations
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- customsTraditional practices or import taxes
- religionSystem of spiritual belief
- upbringingChildhood care and training
socialization · collectivism · individualism · community · honor · filial piety · ubuntu · dharma
ethics
Study of right conduct
- moralsPrinciples of right conduct
- principlesFoundational moral beliefs
- integrityMoral soundness and consistency
virtue · honesty · fairness · justice · conscience · righteousness · decency · dignity · respect · responsibility
worldview
Comprehensive belief framework
- ideologyStructured belief framework
- philosophyStudy of fundamental truths
- creedStatement of belief
doctrine · convictions · tenets · guiding principles · moral code · ethos · standards · norms · priorities · commitments
tradition
Custom passed through generations
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- customsTraditional practices or import taxes
- religionSystem of spiritual belief
upbringing · socialization · collectivism · individualism · community · honor · filial piety · ubuntu · dharma · secularism
- systemsecosystems, ecosystem, biological systems, transportation network, communication systems
- moralsmorality, moral code, ethics lessons, moral codes, moral compass
- mental constructsidea, concept, notion, belief, thought pattern
- worldviewworldview, perspective, outlook, ideology, mindset
- beliefsbelief, beliefs, creed, creeds, faith
value systemnihilism
Rejection of objective meaning
amorality · meaninglessness · moral bankruptcy · emptiness · whim
value systemwhim
Sudden arbitrary desire
passing fancy · impulse · caprice · fad · convenience
value, system, valued, evaluate, values, evaluation, invaluable, devalue, undervalue