| Abstract: | The universality of human nature determines the universality of values and
its particularity determines the diversity and plurality of values that is the fundamental
determinant of security problems among different value systems. In a narrow sense,
value security refers to a situation in which value concepts of a state, region, or a
nation, social class are not under threat from the external adversaries, which is called
conceptual value security. In a broad sense, value security refers to the consistency
between the system of realistic value security and that of conceptual value security.
National value security encompasses both value security in a nation-state and security
of national values, in which the former is featured by the recognition and acceptance of
a prevailing value in a nation-state, and the latter is characterized by the sovereignty of
national values. Due to the fact that the issue of value system is a meta-theoretical one
and the security of conceptual value system is part of cultural security, value security
holds a core position in cultural security and is an important component of overall
national security system. Additionally, value security embodies the security of value
pursuits and value criteria in different spheres of the overall national security system
and therefore, it is also an indispensable and flexible support to the overall national
security. |
