Word of the Week - Axiology

Axiology is a noun, a manner in which persons assign or recognize the value or valuation of phenomena within their determinations. In other words, what is it that we place a value on and how did we arrive to that conclusion for a value measurement?

     For example, do you find that you utilize an axiology of a persons importance to be their beauty or their intelligence, are they successful based on the amount of money that they hold when you meet them or by the number of followers that they have on Instagram? Do you adjudicate a person as intelligent by their academic accomplishments, or their worldly experiences? The way you measure a worth of value is considered your axiology!

     Be sure to expand your paradigms after you recognize the axiology that you employ to arrive at your assumptions. Knowing how you determine a valuation is an important construct of self-reflection, and associations that create relationships, or limitations, each with equal influences on personal development and individual behaviors.