Science of Values

Axiology: The Science of Human Values

The basic questions for all time are enduring:

"Who am I?"

"What am I?"

"What ought I be?"

These three questions sum up our quest to be.

We want to know we have a purpose. We are organisms which, at every micro as well as macro level, operate according to purpose. We want to be able to do something worthwhile, to feel good about what we do, to feel comfortable with ourselves for who we are.

Most of all, we strive to know and appreciate ourselves at a level which reaches beyond goals, successes, failures and mistakes. We can take comfort in the idea that all people from the beginning of recorded human history and possibly before, have the same quest to be of value and to know what that value is.

The principles which guide us in this quest are universal and basic. Moreover, these principles form a structure for teaching us how to:

(1) know and understand why and how we make the decisions we make;

(2) come in contact with ourselves in a dynamic way capturing the forces which are actively shaping our decisions and our lives;

(3) plan our lives based on reason and understanding allowing us to be in control of our destiny; and

(4) develop our relationships based on reasonable expectations as well respect for the uniqueness and worth others.

Axiology, the science of value, provides an objective and reliable way to capture the dynamic forces which produce decisions as well as opportunities for development.

The science of axiology was formally discovered and developed by Dr. Robert S. Hartman, who was nominated for a Nobel Prize in 1973, just before his untimely death.

The Hartman Value Profile, along with the Carpenter Value Profile Instruments measure a person's capacity to think and make value judgments. Through axiology we can understand the forces which come together to make a decision by measuring the thinking process which leads to the decision.

WHAT ARE WE MEASURING?

The Hartman Value Profile, and the Carpenter Value System measure a person's capacity to think and make value judgments. Values include attitudes, beliefs, likes and dislikes. Prior to Dr. Hartman, the only access we had to measure values was through observation of behavior.

The behavioral method provides important information about people but it has limitations. For example, the behavioral models can only measure actions after the decision has been made.

Behavioral models describe either - "that a person will likely do a certain action in a certain way" or "how the action was received by others." The question "WHY" the person made the decision is referred back to the idea -

"That's the way people like that do things!"

Axiology, the science of value, allows us to measure values by measuring why an individual thinks and makes value judgments. We can understand the forces which come together to make a decision by measuring the thinking process which leads to the decision.

HOW DO WE MEASURE VALUE?

Dr. Hartman discovered the mathematical principles which define the way we think and value. These principles form the core of a new science called AXIOLOGY, the science of value. The Value Profiles represent an application of Dr. Hartman's discovery.

Validity studies conducted over the past twenty years on thousands of individuals confirm that we can reliably measure value!

To obtain a summary of validity studies, click here and send.

The fact that we are measuring Value with a science means that...

(1) You can count on the fact that what we measure is reliable. If the Profile results indicate that a person is in social and role transition, uncertain about what type of role or social situation will be best, you can count on this measurement to be accurate.

(2) We can measure values with mathematics. Rather than describing how people differ in their ability to see and appreciate the worth of others, we can precisely measure how well one can see and appreciate others. This factor means that we can compare individuals to one another and that we can look for numbers and patterns which seem to indicate success as well as difficulty in performance.

(3) You can rely on the measurements being objective. In other words, the Value Profile results are not affected by differences in age, race or sex. We conducted tests on representative samples from a data base of over 6,500 individuals to confirm that Hartman Value Profiles and The Hartman Mathematics do not discriminate either by race, culture, age or sex. The norm for making value judgments is the same regardless of race, culture, age or sex.

The information available from one 18 item set of Value Profile data can yield 6.5 quadrillion combinations.

The Value Resource Group program analyzes over 50,000 paragraph combinations which themselves can be combined into 64,000 combinations for individual reports and many more thousand specific combinations for performance and personal assessment.

The profile of an individual is like a finger print - each person's profile is unique.

An even more astonishing fact is that there are more possible combinations of profile patterns to fit each person than there are particles in the known universe.

HOW CAN WE USE VALUE MEASUREMENTS?

One of the most exciting characteristics of axiological analysis is that the report becomes an experience with ourselves at a level which allows us to see on paper what we know to be the case inside.

The transfer of this science and technology to any specific personal or working environment revolves around a four step process:

(1) Developing an understanding of ability and talent;

(2) Identifying the environment which offers the best opportunity for successful utilization of talent consistent with personal expectations, wants and needs;

(3) Learning how to maximize opportunities for development;

(4) Learning how to communicate and relate with others in a way that maximizes individual uniqueness and fulfills your highest value.

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