Personal value analysis

II. Personal Values Analysis

You are to write one personal values analysis, as per the general “Portfolio Specifications” handed out previously, on a value chosen from one of the following lists. Since these lists are derived from the “Values” overviews for the Byzantine-Islamic-Early European Cultural Matrix, you may want to consult those articles for background information. (If you do so, you should cite them properly). Then analyze the value as it is enacted in some story from your own life. This analysis should be 1½ to 2 pages in length. As with the primary source analyses, be sure to follow the prescribed format closely. Most importantly, be sure to relate the value you have chosen to its appropriate integrating value.

[Byzantine (Unified Loyalty)] . [Islamic (Unified Loyalty)] Religious Faith (5.1.1) Submission (3.1)

Ceremony (5.1.2) Gratitude (shakir) (3.3.1)

Sternness (5.1.3) Almsgiving (zakat) (3.3.2)

Impersonal Loyalty (7-7.1) Importance of Group over Individual (3.4)

[Feudal European (Unified Loyalty)] [Urban European (Divided Loyalty)] Security (1.2.1) Impersonal Loyalty (2-2.3.3)

Reciprocal Advantage (3) Freedom (4.2) Interdependence (3.1) Self-Government (4.4.1) Homage/Fealty (4, 4.1) Talent (4.5)

[Dynastic European (The Individual)]

Leadership (4.2-4.4)

Utility (4.5.2.2)

Secularism (6.1)

Worldly Pleasure (6.1)

Individual Expression (6.1)

Virtu (6.2)