I think that [the thing you call “values”] is a closer match to the everyday usage of the word “desires” than the word “values”.
Seconded. The word ‘value’ is heavily overloaded, and I think you’re conflating two meanings. ‘What do you value?’ and ‘What are your values?’ are very different questions for that reason. The first means roughly desirability, whereas the second means something like ‘ethical principles’. I read you as pointing mostly to the former, whereas ‘value’ in philosophy nearly always refers to the latter. Trying to redefine ‘value’ locally to have the other meaning seems likely to result in more confusion than clarity.
Concrete example: I hold ‘help sick friends’ as a considered and endorsed value (or subvalue, or instance of a larger value, whatever). But when I think about going grocery shopping for a sick friend and driving over to drop it at their doorstep, there is zero yumminess or learning, it mostly feels annoying. You could argue that that means it isn’t really one of my values, but at that point you’re using ‘value’ in a fairly nonstandard way.
Seconded. The word ‘value’ is heavily overloaded, and I think you’re conflating two meanings. ‘What do you value?’ and ‘What are your values?’ are very different questions for that reason. The first means roughly desirability, whereas the second means something like ‘ethical principles’. I read you as pointing mostly to the former, whereas ‘value’ in philosophy nearly always refers to the latter. Trying to redefine ‘value’ locally to have the other meaning seems likely to result in more confusion than clarity.
Concrete example: I hold ‘help sick friends’ as a considered and endorsed value (or subvalue, or instance of a larger value, whatever). But when I think about going grocery shopping for a sick friend and driving over to drop it at their doorstep, there is zero yumminess or learning, it mostly feels annoying. You could argue that that means it isn’t really one of my values, but at that point you’re using ‘value’ in a fairly nonstandard way.