All rights reserved. V alue claims assert a writer's sense of values, a writer's sense of right and wrong, good and bad, just and unjust, the beautiful and the ugly. Value claims make judgments, and like all claims readers need to evaluate the evidence and assumptions supporting such claims. Value claims try to prove that some idea, action, or condition is good or bad, right or wrong, worthwhile or worthless.
Democracy offers the greatest chance for people to realize their full potential.
Others express our beliefs about beauty. Value claims, as you can see, reveal much about a writer's personal beliefs. V alue claims also rest upon some sense of a standard of justice, beauty, or goodness. They are also defended or attacked on the basis of differing standards between people. Some people, for example, feel that great literature must have a nobility of purpose, enduring significance, and creative use of language.