beliefs and values: how emotions and thinks need to be comparable

By David Fonseca

Beliefs are mental acts that are developed to satisfy people´s wishes; they are also mentally religious thoughts in which people have their own God, viewpoint and traditions. On the other hand, moral values are used to living with good habits. Some people say that values are similar to those beliefs. However, beliefs and values have different ways in human life.

First of all, a value is an aspiration that expresses the personal interests as a motive power, security, punctuality and creativity. That means that each person has a final draft in life, implementing the values that mark the personality of each person. While the value is a transcendental purpose of the person, the belief is close to the course of events and can be changed; beliefs are part of knowledge and information that people have about something.

Secondly, values are linked to the behavior of human beings that serve to bring a social relationship and serve to respect the other: the main tool for values that exist in a society is communication. The beliefs are different as they can change constantly; over the years, beliefs have changed throughout the world: in the fifteenth century, people believed that the world revolved around God, but later in the Renaissance, people thought that the world revolved around the man. Currently, people have their own religious beliefs, for example, some people believe in one God, others believe in energy, and others do not believe in anything.

However, there are similarities between values and beliefs. Both topics are linked to the perfection of the human people. People have used these acts and thoughts to improve their life and living in harmony. The purpose of them is to reach happiness.

In conclusion, beliefs and values are different. I think that values grow socialization with people in a community while beliefs are formed as the person knows new ways of living. Still, I completely agree that values and beliefs exist in the person to improve the world: that means that human ethics contains these two concepts to live in peace and harmony.