We have been trapped in a maze of our own making. We can no longer see clearly, although we sense something is going wrong. Something doesn't add up. While people seldom speak any longer of virtues, we do hear a lot about values, as if they were the same thing. They are not.
Virtues convey permanent, or at least long-held, commonly shared standards.
Values, on the other hand, can shift radically from one generation to the next. From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values. Victorian values During the Victorian era, there was remarkably a consensus among all classes about what constituted a civilized society. The values held by the working class hardly differed from those of the middle class. She discovered remarkable confessions of moral failings and weaknesses.