EDSA Shrine's Universal Values.

What is universal values?

A value is a universal value if it has the same value or worth for all, or almost all, people.
Spheres of human value encompass morality, aesthetic preference, human traits, human
endeavour, and social order. Whether universal values exist is an unproven conjecture of moral
philosophy and cultural anthropology, though it is clear that certain values are found across a
great diversity of human cultures, such as primary attributes of physical attractiveness whereas
other attributes are subject to aesthetic relativism as governed by cultural norms. This objection
is not limited to aesthetics. Relativism concerning morals is known as moral relativism, a
philosophical stance opposed to the existence of universal moral values.

The claim for universal values can be understood in two different ways. First, it could be that
something has a universal value when everybody finds it valuable. This was Isaiah Berlin's
understanding of the term. According to Berlin, " universal values are values that a great many
human beings in the vast majority of places and situations, at almost all times, do in fact hold in
common, whether consciously and explicitly or as expressed in their behavior."

The issue of whether anything is of universal value, and, if so, what that thing or those things are,
is relevant to psychology, political science, and philosophy, among other fields.

So what is the Universal Value of Edsa Shrine?

Edsa Shrine is erected as a symbol of peace. Peace can be called a universal value because of the
aforementioned paragraphs that it can encompass human morality. Politically it also symbolizes
two powerful revolutions of non-violence that restored morality, freedom, democracy. Spiritually
it is a church, to be exact an unfinished church. It is believed to be unfinished because of its
continual development and unending development. The saying of a rolling stone gathers no moss
is what is implied of it being unfinished. A never ending improving church that wishes to gather
no moss. This are the universal values that the EDSA Shrine portrays to us historically.
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