BASIC HUMAN VALUES AND ETHICS

The term "basic human values" refers to the ideals that are at the heart of what it means to be human. Truth, honesty, loyalty, love, peace, and other such qualities are regarded as essential intrinsic values in humans because they bring out the fundamental goodness of human beings and society as a whole. Values are our success guidelines - our paradigm of what is acceptable. Human conduct is determined by the characters who define their identity, choose their values, and form their beliefs. Morals, integrity, a tranquil life, respect for others, honesty (truthfulness and trustworthiness), compassion, kindness, courage, sharing, time management, adjustment (cooperation), self-confidence, commitment, spirituality, and other qualities are examples of human values. 


Self-Exploration: 

Self-exploration is the process of doing self-investigation. It's a conversation between 'who you are' and 'who you want to be.' Self-exploration allows us to look within at our difficulties, reflect on them, and address them by becoming conscious of our inherent acceptance. Self-exploration is a process for value education - addresses the process of discovering what is valuable to oneself by looking within. To comprehend all of this, we must first look within. The purposes of self-exploration are:  

  1. Knowing who you are and what you want; 
  2. A process of self-evolution through self-investigation; 
  3. Knowing oneself and, as a result, knowing one's complete existence;
  4. Recognising and fulfilling one's relationship;
  5. Understanding human behaviour and character and living appropriately;
  6. It is about being at peace with oneself and with one's entire existence;
  7. Recognising innateness and progressing to self-organization and self-expression.


Human Values: 

Human values are the intrinsic moral dispositions toward compassion, honesty, loyalty, love, peace, sympathy, truth, and so on that promotes the fundamental goodness of human beings and society as a whole. They are the ideals that most people cherish and share, consciously or unconsciously, in most places and eras, and that they practice. Human values aid in understanding one's attitude, motivation, and behaviour, as well as influencing one's worldview. They allow for the interpretation of "good and wrong" and provide methods for understanding people and organizations. The following are brief discussions of the major human values:

  • Love and Compassion: Love is expressed via genuine concern for others, kindness, empathy, and compassion for all. Compassion is the result of true unconditional love. It can be witnessed in human actions of generosity, mercy, and charity.
  • Peace: Peace values include, among other things, equality, humility, optimism, patience, self-confidence, self-control, and self-esteem. Its breadth covers peace at the individual, societal, and global levels.
  • Truth: Because it deals with ultimate and unchanging reality, truth is everlasting and unchangeable. It is distinguished by qualities such as correctness, fairness, honesty, sincerity, justice, bravery, integrity, knowledge search, resolve, and so on. In professional life, the most basic embodiment of truth is sincerity, which can be demonstrated in terms of dedication to one's work.
  • Non-Violence: Non-violence refers to refraining from knowingly causing harm to any creature, living or non-living, through one's thoughts, speech, or action. Nonviolence requires abstaining from hatred and nurturing. All beings deserve love and compassion.
  • Righteousness: As the foundation of key human values, righteousness is essential. It entails living and acting in a manner that demonstrates propriety and decorum at each stage. It discusses ethical principles, ethical behaviour, and moral values.
  • Renunciation: Renunciation implies a loving attitude toward all living things, creatures who are not motivated by self-interest It can be demonstrated in self-control, austerity, and a person's selflessness
  • Service: A service is an act done out of love. It also denotes compassion and self-sacrifice for the sake of others. Service value necessitates serenity without conditions or caste prejudice, religion, race, and creed are all factors to consider. 
  • Peaceful coexistence: This term refers to partnerships that are cohesive and coherent. It includes psychological and social qualities like benevolence, compassion, thoughtfulness, morality, forgiveness, brotherhood, equality, perseverance, respect for others, environmental awareness, and so on.
  • Discipline: Discipline denotes the individual's regulated values for all beings. It contains values such as regulation, direction, and order, among others. 
  • Courage: Courage is the ability to rationally accept and face hazards and tough tasks. Self-assurance is the fundamental condition for cultivating courage. Courage is divided into three sorts dependent on the nature of the hazards. 


Physical bravery 

Physical bravery focuses on the sufficiency of physical strength, which includes muscle power and armament. People with high adrenalin levels may be willing to tackle obstacles for the sake of the thrill, or they may be motivated by a desire to succeed. Social bravery entails making decisions and taking activities to alter the status quo based on a conviction for or against specific social practices. This necessitates leadership characteristics, such as empathy and sacrifice, in order to mobilize and encourage followers for a societal purpose. 

Intellectual courage is instilled in people through education, experience, games, tactics, education, and training.

  • Character: It is a distinguishing quality that defines an individual's behaviour. It is the virtues pattern (morally-desirable features). Character traits are characteristics that influence a person's moral and ethical acts and responses. It is also the soil in which morals and values grow. People are classified into many groups based on common traits such as ruthlessness, aggressiveness, ambition, constraining selfishness, stinginess, cheerfulness, generosity, and benevolence. 

Conclusion: Humans have the unique power to construct their own identity, select their values, and form their views. All three of them have a direct impact on a person's behaviour. People have gone to tremendous lengths to prove the truth of their views, including going to war and sacrificing their own lives. People, on the other hand, are not driven to support or affirm the ideas of others when those beliefs contradict their own. People will behave in accordance with their particular values or what they consider to be significant. A value is defined as a principle that promotes well-being or helps to avoid damage. Values are our success guidelines—our paradigm of what is acceptable. Personal values are described as emotional convictions in ideas that are thought to be especially beneficial or essential to the individual.basic human values.

References: 

https://www.lkouniv.ac.in/site/writereaddata/siteContent/202003271510186297kaumudi_Human_values.pdf

https://www.narsammaacsc.org/pdf/Handbook_of_Human_Values_and_professional_Ethics.pdf

https://vit.ac.in/files/Ethics_Manual.pdf

https://online.gndu.ac.in/pdf/HANDBOOHUMANPROFESSIONALETHICS.pdf

https://www.gktoday.in/topic/human-values-in-ethics/


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