Values vs. Ethos — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Values and Ethos
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Values
An amount, as of goods, services, or money, considered to be a fair and suitable equivalent for something else; a fair price or return.
Ethos
Ethos ( or US: ) is a Greek word meaning "character" that is used to describe the guiding beliefs or ideals that characterize a community, nation, or ideology. The Greeks also used this word to refer to the power of music to influence emotions, behaviors, and even morals.
Values
Monetary or material worth
The fluctuating value of gold and silver.
Ethos
The characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community as manifested in its attitudes and aspirations
A challenge to the ethos of the 1960s
Values
Worth in usefulness or importance to the possessor; utility or merit
The value of an education.
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Ethos
The disposition, character, or fundamental values peculiar to a specific person, people, culture, or movement
"They cultivated a subversive alternative ethos" (Anthony Burgess).
Values
Often values A principle or standard, as of behavior, that is considered important or desirable
"The speech was a summons back to the patrician values of restraint and responsibility" (Jonathan Alter).
Ethos
The character or fundamental values of a person, people, culture, or movement.
Values
Precise meaning or import, as of a word.
Ethos
(rhetoric) A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker invokes their authority, competence or expertise in an attempt to persuade others that their view is correct.
Values
(Mathematics) A quantity or number expressed by an algebraic term.
Ethos
(aesthetics) The traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character, as influenced by the ethos (character or fundamental values) of a people, rather than realistic or emotional situations or individual character in a narrow sense; opposed to pathos.
Values
(Music) The relative duration of a tone or rest.
Ethos
The character, sentiment, or disposition of a community or people, considered as a natural endowment; the spirit which actuates manners and customs; also, the characteristic tone or genius of an institution or social organization.
Values
The relative darkness or lightness of a color. See Table at color.
Ethos
The traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character - character as influenced by the ethos (sense 1) of a people - rather than realistic or emotional situations or individual character in a narrow sense; - opposed to pathos.
Values
(Linguistics) The sound quality of a letter or diphthong.
Ethos
(anthropology) the distinctive spirit of a culture or an era;
The Greek ethos
Values
One of a series of specified values
Issued a stamp of new value.
Values
To determine or estimate the worth or value of; appraise.
Values
To regard highly; esteem
I value your advice.
Values
To rate according to relative estimate of worth or desirability; evaluate
Valued health above money.
Values
To assign a value to (a unit of currency, for example).
Values
Of or relating to the practice of investing in individual securities that, according to some fundamental measure, such as book value, appear to be relatively less expensive than comparable securities.
Values
Relating to or consisting of principles or standards
A value system.
Values
Inflection of value
Values
Beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something);
He has very conservatives values
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