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                                  %VALUE STRUCTURES 731217

     Value  structures  create the context in which  value
Judgments  are  given  existential  significance.    Value
judgments are not realized unless they are made within the
context  of  some  value structure which  give  the  value
judgments   power  to  effect  political   action   and/or
authentic meeting.

     Value structures are of two types:  (1)  Those  which
facilitate  authentic  meeting,  (2)  Those which  inhibit
authentic meeting.

     (1)   Value structures of the first type enable  real
persons  to  solve  real  problems  through  dialogue   by
creating  a fail-safe context in which value judgments may
be made regarding possibilities. Not all possibilities can
be  fulfilled.   Because of human finitude there  must  be
decisions  and actions.  It is not helpful to only  affirm
that a possibility is good.  Decisions and actions can not
possible be to the liking of all persons affected by them.
If  persons participate in a value structure of the  first
type  it  provides  a  fail-safe context  in  which  value
judgments regarding decisions and actions and consequences
do   not  inhibit  authentic  meeting,   and  in   reality
facilitate  authentic  meeting in which  participants  may
deal with the consequences of finitude.

     (2) Value structures of the second type encourage the
participants  to maintain standards for the classification
and/or  judgment  of  persons.  Value judgments  are  then
contributions  to the maintenance of standards.  The value
judgments  may be carefully based upon a consideration  of
the natural consequences and sociological consequences  of
decisions  and actions.   Such information is  helpful  in
updating  the  system  standards in terms of  which  human
decisions  and  actions may be judged.  Because  of  human
finitude  those who have a dominant focus upon maintaining
standards  do  not have sufficient attention  to  give  to
authentic meeting,  and in many cases there is a  conflict
of  interest between maintaining standards and maintaining
open channels of communication.   Thus value structures of
the second type inhibit authentic meeting.

     Value  structures  create the context in which  value
judgments are given practical significance.

                         (c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in
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