Value-system

Value-system: Any stable set of regulators of judgment and action, whether or not the value deciders are recognized.

Values which cohere as a stable set of regulators of judgment and action whether or not the value deciders are consciously recognized.

An interconnected network of goods and bads that determines the motivations of individual moral agents.

Source: What is Good? What is Bad? The Value of All Values across Time, Place and Theories’ by John McMurtry, Philosophy and World Problems, Volume I-III, UNESCO in partnership with Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems: Oxford, 2004-11.