Human Values
Rajkumar Singh
Assistant Professor
Objective
● To comprehend the significance, guidelines, content, and procedural aspects of value education for personal and societal
harmony.
● To explore and integrate the harmonious coexistence of the sentient self ('I') and the physical body, emphasizing self-discipline
(Sanyam) and health (Swasthya).
● To analyze and apply foundational values like trust (Vishwas) and respect (Samman) in fostering harmonious relationships
within families and extending to societal interactions.
● To comprehend and apply principles of interconnectedness and sustainability in nature, emphasizing recyclability and mutual
fulfillment.
● To develop competence in professional ethics by integrating humanistic values and ethical conduct, and by promoting socially
and ecologically responsible practices in professional settings.
Syllabus
Module 1:Course Introduction - Need, Basic Guidelines, Content and Process for Value Education
● Understanding the need, basic guidelines, content and process for Value Education
● Self Exploration–what is it? - its content and process; ‘Natural Acceptance’ and Experiential Validation- as the mechanism for self exploration
● Continuous Happiness and Prosperity- A look at basic Human Aspirations
● Right understanding, Relationship and Physical Facilities- the basic requirements for fulfillment of aspirations of every human being with their correct
priority
● Understanding Happiness and Prosperity correctly- A critical appraisal of the current scenario
● Method to fulfill the above human aspirations: understanding and living in harmony at various levels
Module 2: Understanding Harmony in the Human Being - Harmony in Myself!
● Understanding human being as a co-existence of the sentient ‘I’ and the material ‘Body’
● Understanding the needs of Self (‘I’) and ‘Body’ - Sukhand Suvidha
● Understanding the Body as an instrument of ‘I’ (I being the doer, seer and enjoyer)
● Understanding the characteristics and activities of ‘I’ and harmony in ‘I’
● Understanding the harmony of I with the Body: Sanyam and Swasthya; correct appraisal
of Physical needs, meaning of Prosperity in detail
● Programs to ensure Sanyam and Swasthya
- Practice Exercises and Case Studies will be taken up in Practice Sessions.
Conti….
Module 3:Understanding Harmony in the Family and Society- Harmony in Human-Human Relationship
● Understanding harmony in the Family- the basic unit of human interaction
● Understanding values in human-human relationship; meaning of Nyaya and program for its fulfillment to ensure Ubhay-tripti; Trust (Vishwas) and Respect (Samman) as
the foundational values of relationship
● Understanding the meaning of Vishwas; Difference between intention and competence
● Understanding the meaning of Samman, Difference between respect and differentiation; the other salient values in relationship
● Understanding the harmony in the society (society being an extension of family): Samadhan, Samridhi, Abhay, Sah-astitvaas comprehensive Human Goals
● Visualizing a universal harmonious order in society- Undivided Society (AkhandSamaj), Universal Order (SarvabhaumVyawastha )- from family to world family!
- Practice Exercises and Case Studies will be taken up in Practice Sessions.
Module 4: Understanding Harmony in the Nature and Existence - Whole existence as Co-existence
● Understanding the harmony in the Nature
● Interconnectedness and mutual fulfillment among the four orders of nature- recyclability and self-regulation in nature
● Understanding Existence as Coexistence (Sah-astitva) of mutually interacting units in
● all-pervasive space
● Holistic perception of harmony at all levels of existence
- Practice Exercises and Case Studies will be taken up in Practice Sessions.
Conti…
Module 5:Implications of the above Holistic Understanding of Harmony on Professional Ethics
● Natural acceptance of human values
● Definitiveness of Ethical Human Conduct
● Basis for Humanistic Education, Humanistic Constitution and Humanistic Universal Order
● Competence in professional ethics:
a) Ability to utilize the professional competence for augmenting universal human Order,
b) Ability to identify the scope and characteristics of people-friendly and eco- friendly production systems,
c) Ability to identify and develop appropriate technologies and management patterns for above production systems.
● Case studies of typical holistic technologies, management models and production systems
● Strategy for transition from the present state to Universal Human Order:
a) At the level of individual: as socially and ecologically responsible engineers, technologists and managers
b) At the level of society: as mutually enriching institutions and organizations
Value
Value of a unit is its participation in the larger order
e.g. The value of a piece of chalk is its participation in the classroom
What is valuable
The chalk writes on the blackboard in the classroom?
or
The chalk scratches the blackboard in the classroom?
What is valuable = value
The context is always the larger order
Value of a unit is definite
The value of a unit is also referred to as its role
Thus, the role of chalk is to write on the blackboard
Human Value
Value / role of a human being is its participation in the larger order
E.g. My participation in the family defines my value in the family
What is valuable for you?
feeling of respect or feeling of disrespect?
Human Value
Value / role of a human being is its participation in the larger order
E.g. My participation in the family defines my value in the family
What is valuable for you?
feeling of respect or feeling of disrespect?
I feel happy when I have a feeling of respect
The other feels happy when I express respect to him/her
Living in accordance with human values leads to mutual happiness*
○ My happiness
○ Happiness of the other human being
*i.e. in the case of human-human interaction
In the case of human-rest of nature interaction, living in accordance with human values leads to mutual prosperity
Understanding Human value
In nature, every unit participates with every other unit in a mutually fulfilling manner
E.g. air nurtures plants and plants enrich air
Except for human being (who does not understand human values)
For a human being to live with human values,
s(he) has to understand human values
E.g. for a human being to live with a feeling of respect s(he) has to understand the
feeling of respect
To live with happiness, human beings have to understand human values
They have to understand their participation
They have to understand their role
Deciding our Values
Do you want to be able to decide on your own right?
or
Do you want somebody else to decide for you?
(this somebody may be a group of people, it may be the society or the education
system, etc.)
Deciding our Values
Do you want to be able to decide on your own right?
or
Do you want somebody else to decide for you?
(this somebody may be a group of people, it may be the society or the education system, etc.)
If you are not able to decide on your own right then:
1. Someone else is deciding what is valuable and what is not valuable for you
2. Unconsciously you keep accepting those things as values
3. You get busy with how to implement them, how to realize them, materialize
them
Values decided by the other
Eg. In a professional college, many first-year students start to use foul language within a very short
time
They are made to assume that this sort of language is one of the indicators of their freedom, of their
own progress to adulthood… and they may adopt it as a new value
Similarly, with sleeping late and getting up late… and so many things
Did they decide it for themselves?
Did it just happen “unconsciously”, without being aware of it?
Is it worth for them? Is it fulfilling for them?
Is it fulfilling for others (like their family members)?
So, if we are unable to decide on our own right, we are programmed by the other; our values are
decided by someone else…
Deciding Human Values on Our Own Right
Would we decide on the basis of whatever we like, whatever we believe?
If we decide in this manner, human values will be different for different people
Or is there some definite, existential basis, something we can understand, something we can be assured about,
something that ensures mutual fulfilment in living?
If this is the case, then there is a possibility that human values are universal, they are
the same for all of us
Value education is about exploring into this possibility
● Human values guides us to take account in the human element when we
interact in the society
● Respect, acceptance, consideration, appreciation, listening, openness,
affection, empathy and love towards other human being makes us have
harmony in the surrounding
● Human values are a tool to manage human relations and a tool for peace
when the tension is high
● Once, one has understood his/her values in life he/she can examine and
control the various choices he/she makes in his/her life
Need for Value Education
● All human beings aspire for a happy and successful life and the purpose of
value education is to provide adequate competence to actualize this aspiration
● The subject enables us to understand what is valuable for human happiness
● The present education system has become largely skill-based. It is not within
the science and technology to provide the competence of deciding what really
is valuable
● Value education is what our system misses
Conti…
● Value education more over helps us to explore our inner peace and
happiness, helps us to maintain harmony within ourselves
● Helps us to visualize our goals clearly and actualize the potential within
● It reduces the feeling of jealousy and promotes brotherhood also widens our
perception towards analysing things
Basic Guidelines for Value Education
● Must be balanced in an efficient manner so that it is beneficial for every individual
 UNIVERSAL- applicable to each and every individual
 RATIONAL- should not be based on blind beliefs otherwise educated individuals
would discard them
 NATURAL AND VERIFIABLE- should be naturally acceptable to everyone,
individual does not forcibly need to accept it
 ALL ENCOMPASSING- aims at transforming our living and consciousness, it
covers all dimensions like thoughts, behaviour, work & understanding at all levels
 LEADING TO HARMONY- aims to promote harmony within the individual, among
human beings and nature
Important values in life
● Love: Unconditional and unselfish care
● Peace: control the mind
● Truth: Indispensable ethical discipline
● Non-violence: means respect for life and recognition of rights of others
● Right conduct: Truth in action is right conduct
“Thinking with Love is truth, feeling with love is peace, acting with love is right
conduct, understanding with love is non-violence”
Content of Value Education
● It should include all dimensions at all level like thoughts, work, realization,
analyzation etc. for individual, family, friend and the existence of human
society
● One must have a clear understanding for every inter relationship and should
maintain a harmony
Process of Value Education
● Self exploration is the fruitful process of value education and not giving a
lecture on do’s and don’ts
● Whatever is found as truth or reality may be stated as proposal and has to be
verified at the own right
● It’s a process between ‘what you are?’ & ‘what you want to be?’
● A process of knowing self through the entire situations and existence
● Recognizing one’s relation with every unit in existence and fulfilling it
● It helps you be in harmony within yourself and in harmony with everything
around
In this course, we will explore…
Self Exploration
● Self exploration is the process to find out what is right and valuable for us by
investigating within ourself to see what satisfies us
● Self exploration gives us a chance to understand ourselves, since we live with
different people at different time (like family, friends, co-workers etc.) we
behave accordingly, but to understand harmony with them we first need to
understand ourselves
● First we need to observe and focus inside us and realize our true self
Content of Self Exploration
-just finding answers to the following fundamental questions of all human beings.
● Desire/Goal: to find out the human goal, the real motto of one’s life
● Program: What is the process to achieve my desired goal? What is the
program to actualize the above?
These two questions cover the whole domain of human aspirations. They form
the content of self exploration
Conti..
● The process is not complete, it will complete when natural acceptance and
experimental validation ultimately leads to realization and understanding in
self.
● On having realization and understanding we get assurance, satisfaction and
universality (applies to all time, space and individual).
Natural Acceptance
● Natural acceptance implies unconditional and total acceptance of the self,
people and environment.
● It also refers to the absence of any exception from others.
● In other words, Natural acceptance is a way to accept the good things
naturally.
Experiential Validation
● Experimental verification is moreover a practical approach, a direct
experience with the surrounding
● Most of what we know about our self is not only through our own opinion of
our self but also because of how others view us.
● When what we already believe to be true of us is validated by some
situations, phenomenon or outcomes. We may term it as experiential
validation.

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  • 1.
  • 2.
    Objective ● To comprehendthe significance, guidelines, content, and procedural aspects of value education for personal and societal harmony. ● To explore and integrate the harmonious coexistence of the sentient self ('I') and the physical body, emphasizing self-discipline (Sanyam) and health (Swasthya). ● To analyze and apply foundational values like trust (Vishwas) and respect (Samman) in fostering harmonious relationships within families and extending to societal interactions. ● To comprehend and apply principles of interconnectedness and sustainability in nature, emphasizing recyclability and mutual fulfillment. ● To develop competence in professional ethics by integrating humanistic values and ethical conduct, and by promoting socially and ecologically responsible practices in professional settings.
  • 3.
    Syllabus Module 1:Course Introduction- Need, Basic Guidelines, Content and Process for Value Education ● Understanding the need, basic guidelines, content and process for Value Education ● Self Exploration–what is it? - its content and process; ‘Natural Acceptance’ and Experiential Validation- as the mechanism for self exploration ● Continuous Happiness and Prosperity- A look at basic Human Aspirations ● Right understanding, Relationship and Physical Facilities- the basic requirements for fulfillment of aspirations of every human being with their correct priority ● Understanding Happiness and Prosperity correctly- A critical appraisal of the current scenario ● Method to fulfill the above human aspirations: understanding and living in harmony at various levels Module 2: Understanding Harmony in the Human Being - Harmony in Myself! ● Understanding human being as a co-existence of the sentient ‘I’ and the material ‘Body’ ● Understanding the needs of Self (‘I’) and ‘Body’ - Sukhand Suvidha ● Understanding the Body as an instrument of ‘I’ (I being the doer, seer and enjoyer) ● Understanding the characteristics and activities of ‘I’ and harmony in ‘I’ ● Understanding the harmony of I with the Body: Sanyam and Swasthya; correct appraisal of Physical needs, meaning of Prosperity in detail ● Programs to ensure Sanyam and Swasthya - Practice Exercises and Case Studies will be taken up in Practice Sessions.
  • 4.
    Conti…. Module 3:Understanding Harmonyin the Family and Society- Harmony in Human-Human Relationship ● Understanding harmony in the Family- the basic unit of human interaction ● Understanding values in human-human relationship; meaning of Nyaya and program for its fulfillment to ensure Ubhay-tripti; Trust (Vishwas) and Respect (Samman) as the foundational values of relationship ● Understanding the meaning of Vishwas; Difference between intention and competence ● Understanding the meaning of Samman, Difference between respect and differentiation; the other salient values in relationship ● Understanding the harmony in the society (society being an extension of family): Samadhan, Samridhi, Abhay, Sah-astitvaas comprehensive Human Goals ● Visualizing a universal harmonious order in society- Undivided Society (AkhandSamaj), Universal Order (SarvabhaumVyawastha )- from family to world family! - Practice Exercises and Case Studies will be taken up in Practice Sessions. Module 4: Understanding Harmony in the Nature and Existence - Whole existence as Co-existence ● Understanding the harmony in the Nature ● Interconnectedness and mutual fulfillment among the four orders of nature- recyclability and self-regulation in nature ● Understanding Existence as Coexistence (Sah-astitva) of mutually interacting units in ● all-pervasive space ● Holistic perception of harmony at all levels of existence - Practice Exercises and Case Studies will be taken up in Practice Sessions.
  • 5.
    Conti… Module 5:Implications ofthe above Holistic Understanding of Harmony on Professional Ethics ● Natural acceptance of human values ● Definitiveness of Ethical Human Conduct ● Basis for Humanistic Education, Humanistic Constitution and Humanistic Universal Order ● Competence in professional ethics: a) Ability to utilize the professional competence for augmenting universal human Order, b) Ability to identify the scope and characteristics of people-friendly and eco- friendly production systems, c) Ability to identify and develop appropriate technologies and management patterns for above production systems. ● Case studies of typical holistic technologies, management models and production systems ● Strategy for transition from the present state to Universal Human Order: a) At the level of individual: as socially and ecologically responsible engineers, technologists and managers b) At the level of society: as mutually enriching institutions and organizations
  • 6.
    Value Value of aunit is its participation in the larger order e.g. The value of a piece of chalk is its participation in the classroom What is valuable The chalk writes on the blackboard in the classroom? or The chalk scratches the blackboard in the classroom? What is valuable = value The context is always the larger order Value of a unit is definite The value of a unit is also referred to as its role Thus, the role of chalk is to write on the blackboard
  • 7.
    Human Value Value /role of a human being is its participation in the larger order E.g. My participation in the family defines my value in the family What is valuable for you? feeling of respect or feeling of disrespect?
  • 8.
    Human Value Value /role of a human being is its participation in the larger order E.g. My participation in the family defines my value in the family What is valuable for you? feeling of respect or feeling of disrespect? I feel happy when I have a feeling of respect The other feels happy when I express respect to him/her Living in accordance with human values leads to mutual happiness* ○ My happiness ○ Happiness of the other human being *i.e. in the case of human-human interaction In the case of human-rest of nature interaction, living in accordance with human values leads to mutual prosperity
  • 9.
    Understanding Human value Innature, every unit participates with every other unit in a mutually fulfilling manner E.g. air nurtures plants and plants enrich air Except for human being (who does not understand human values) For a human being to live with human values, s(he) has to understand human values E.g. for a human being to live with a feeling of respect s(he) has to understand the feeling of respect To live with happiness, human beings have to understand human values They have to understand their participation They have to understand their role
  • 11.
    Deciding our Values Doyou want to be able to decide on your own right? or Do you want somebody else to decide for you? (this somebody may be a group of people, it may be the society or the education system, etc.)
  • 12.
    Deciding our Values Doyou want to be able to decide on your own right? or Do you want somebody else to decide for you? (this somebody may be a group of people, it may be the society or the education system, etc.) If you are not able to decide on your own right then: 1. Someone else is deciding what is valuable and what is not valuable for you 2. Unconsciously you keep accepting those things as values 3. You get busy with how to implement them, how to realize them, materialize them
  • 13.
    Values decided bythe other Eg. In a professional college, many first-year students start to use foul language within a very short time They are made to assume that this sort of language is one of the indicators of their freedom, of their own progress to adulthood… and they may adopt it as a new value Similarly, with sleeping late and getting up late… and so many things Did they decide it for themselves? Did it just happen “unconsciously”, without being aware of it? Is it worth for them? Is it fulfilling for them? Is it fulfilling for others (like their family members)? So, if we are unable to decide on our own right, we are programmed by the other; our values are decided by someone else…
  • 14.
    Deciding Human Valueson Our Own Right Would we decide on the basis of whatever we like, whatever we believe? If we decide in this manner, human values will be different for different people Or is there some definite, existential basis, something we can understand, something we can be assured about, something that ensures mutual fulfilment in living? If this is the case, then there is a possibility that human values are universal, they are the same for all of us Value education is about exploring into this possibility
  • 15.
    ● Human valuesguides us to take account in the human element when we interact in the society ● Respect, acceptance, consideration, appreciation, listening, openness, affection, empathy and love towards other human being makes us have harmony in the surrounding ● Human values are a tool to manage human relations and a tool for peace when the tension is high ● Once, one has understood his/her values in life he/she can examine and control the various choices he/she makes in his/her life
  • 16.
    Need for ValueEducation ● All human beings aspire for a happy and successful life and the purpose of value education is to provide adequate competence to actualize this aspiration ● The subject enables us to understand what is valuable for human happiness ● The present education system has become largely skill-based. It is not within the science and technology to provide the competence of deciding what really is valuable ● Value education is what our system misses
  • 17.
    Conti… ● Value educationmore over helps us to explore our inner peace and happiness, helps us to maintain harmony within ourselves ● Helps us to visualize our goals clearly and actualize the potential within ● It reduces the feeling of jealousy and promotes brotherhood also widens our perception towards analysing things
  • 18.
    Basic Guidelines forValue Education ● Must be balanced in an efficient manner so that it is beneficial for every individual  UNIVERSAL- applicable to each and every individual  RATIONAL- should not be based on blind beliefs otherwise educated individuals would discard them  NATURAL AND VERIFIABLE- should be naturally acceptable to everyone, individual does not forcibly need to accept it  ALL ENCOMPASSING- aims at transforming our living and consciousness, it covers all dimensions like thoughts, behaviour, work & understanding at all levels  LEADING TO HARMONY- aims to promote harmony within the individual, among human beings and nature
  • 19.
    Important values inlife ● Love: Unconditional and unselfish care ● Peace: control the mind ● Truth: Indispensable ethical discipline ● Non-violence: means respect for life and recognition of rights of others ● Right conduct: Truth in action is right conduct “Thinking with Love is truth, feeling with love is peace, acting with love is right conduct, understanding with love is non-violence”
  • 20.
    Content of ValueEducation ● It should include all dimensions at all level like thoughts, work, realization, analyzation etc. for individual, family, friend and the existence of human society ● One must have a clear understanding for every inter relationship and should maintain a harmony
  • 21.
    Process of ValueEducation ● Self exploration is the fruitful process of value education and not giving a lecture on do’s and don’ts ● Whatever is found as truth or reality may be stated as proposal and has to be verified at the own right ● It’s a process between ‘what you are?’ & ‘what you want to be?’ ● A process of knowing self through the entire situations and existence ● Recognizing one’s relation with every unit in existence and fulfilling it ● It helps you be in harmony within yourself and in harmony with everything around
  • 22.
    In this course,we will explore…
  • 23.
    Self Exploration ● Selfexploration is the process to find out what is right and valuable for us by investigating within ourself to see what satisfies us ● Self exploration gives us a chance to understand ourselves, since we live with different people at different time (like family, friends, co-workers etc.) we behave accordingly, but to understand harmony with them we first need to understand ourselves ● First we need to observe and focus inside us and realize our true self
  • 24.
    Content of SelfExploration -just finding answers to the following fundamental questions of all human beings. ● Desire/Goal: to find out the human goal, the real motto of one’s life ● Program: What is the process to achieve my desired goal? What is the program to actualize the above? These two questions cover the whole domain of human aspirations. They form the content of self exploration
  • 26.
    Conti.. ● The processis not complete, it will complete when natural acceptance and experimental validation ultimately leads to realization and understanding in self. ● On having realization and understanding we get assurance, satisfaction and universality (applies to all time, space and individual).
  • 27.
    Natural Acceptance ● Naturalacceptance implies unconditional and total acceptance of the self, people and environment. ● It also refers to the absence of any exception from others. ● In other words, Natural acceptance is a way to accept the good things naturally.
  • 28.
    Experiential Validation ● Experimentalverification is moreover a practical approach, a direct experience with the surrounding ● Most of what we know about our self is not only through our own opinion of our self but also because of how others view us. ● When what we already believe to be true of us is validated by some situations, phenomenon or outcomes. We may term it as experiential validation.