It's possible to assume your values probably aren't the best - that you're fallible and likely not in possession of the correct answers.
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Yes. They're provisionally the best based on what I have access to and where I am right now.
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But no-one would say 'I hold these values but admit that those other ones are better' because then in what sense do they hold the former?
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Clever. In the sense that the values you think are best *are* your values, you think your values are the best.
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I don't see how it can be any other way. I don't understand what people mean when they say things which suggest they do.
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In the sense - I use an Apple laptop, but I can appreciate that maybe similarly priced PC laptops could actually be superior.
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Similarly, I might live according to one set of values, but appreciate that someone else's approach may actually be better than mine.
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But this again is admitting that you don't live up to a standard you actually think is better.
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It's not cultural identity, it's because they're our own. Even if we all agreed "principles of liberalism" are moral, we'd differ on meaning
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'Our own' as an individual's own? Well, yes. We have a responsibility to work out our own morality & only hold those views we can justify
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But this misses the point that views should only be 'our own' because we have seriously considered them & think they have most merit.
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Its not wrong to think your own views best if you have chosen them for being the best on serious consideration & remain open to others.
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We'll always see our own views as the most developed, "remaining open to others" is what I'm getting at. Not clinging to pre-defined values
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The ones we have developed, yes. It should be obvious that we keep developing them in response to hearing other ideas.
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I think core values (values for pleasure, meaning, etc.) just are what they are but instrumental values can be more/less optimal objectively
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