See: List of Concepts and How to find your core values?
For those familiar with our thesis, Value alignment is at the core of Community Building. But what exactly are Values? Here is some of the existing literature on Values which may enable us to come up with a framework for what Values are (a necessary condition before we decide the best way to measure them).
See: Shalom Schwartz’ Universal Values
See: Jan Stassen on Human Values
See also: Concept: Value Alignment
See: Sam Harris’ views on Values
See: Michael Huemer’s definition of Values
See: World Values Survey
See: Bilsky and Janik on Human Values
See: Diana Boer on Values
See: The nature of Human Values by Milton Rokeach
My own preferred definition is that Values are “situation independent decision helpers”.