Questioning Values: What's the Value in an Analysis of Values Program?

Abstract

Michael LaChat is an assistant professor of Christian ethics at the Methodist Theological School, Delaware, Ohio. James Nelson and Linda Hansen are assistant and associate professors of liberal studies, respectively, and they serve as ethicists in the Analysis of Values Program at St. John's. strate, a concern for the values of Benedictine Christian ity which is its heritage; the development of an Analysis of Values Program thus stems from this long tradition of reflection on human values. The specific plan for the Analysis of Values Program was devised in 1978 by a faculty committee composed of members of the departments of Philosophy, Sociology,