The document discusses the significance of human values in shaping identity and guiding behavior, emphasizing their role in promoting well-being and preventing harm. It differentiates between intrinsic values, which hold inherent worth, and extrinsic values, whose importance is derived from their ability to create intrinsic benefits. Additionally, it highlights the distinction between values and beliefs, noting that values are external guiding principles while beliefs are internal convictions.

1. Human values
Shubham Yadav
0108EC161054
ET IV sem

2. Human Values in Ethics
Humans have the unique ability to define their identity, choose their values and establish their
belief .
“A value is defined as a principle that promotes well-being or prevents harm.”
“Values are the scales we use to weigh our choices for our actions, whether to move towards
or away from something”.
Values are the guiding principles of our lives. They are essential for positive human behaviour and
actions in our daily lives. They are formed on the basis of interests, choices, needs, desires and
preferences. They have played important role in not only sociology, but also psychology, anthropology
and related disciplines.
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3. Why Values are needed? 2
*Guide us in the right path.
*Learn the importance of certainty,
goodness and beauty.
*Give direction to life and bring joy.
*Learn satisfaction towards life.
*Attain peace in life.
*Develop character.
*Preserve our culture and heritage.

4. Intrinsic and Extrinsic Values 3
The term intrinsic means “in itself” or “for its own sake”. Intrinsic values are those values which
have an eternal property without any reference to any end.
For example, happiness or peace or joy or truth is an intrinsic value. Extrinsic values are
those whose property or value depends on how much it generates the intrinsic values. Having
a family is an extrinsic value because its value depends on how much happiness or joy it
creates.

5. Types of values 4
 Moral value
 Ethical value
 Social value
 Professional value
 Aesthetic value

6. Basic values ; Schwartz theory 5

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8. Core values 7
* Truth
* Love
* Right Conduct
* Non violence
* Peace

9. Other values 8

10. How values are different from beliefs? 9
A belief is an internal feeling that something is true, even though that belief may be unproven or
irrational. For example, I believe that if I see a black cat crossing the road, it indicates a bad
luck. On the other hand, a value is a measure of the worth or importance a person attaches to
something. Our values are often reflected in the way we live our lives, for instance, we value
freedom of speech, or we value our families etc.
All of us have a constant internal battle between our beliefs and values. Sometimes, we
mistake our beliefs as values or vice versa. Beliefs are internal, while the values are external.
This implies that we can pick up a value from an external source or experience, person or thing
and start living with that value inculcated in us. But belief is an internal energy that is created
on what we absorb and then it builds itself within us further creating our thoughts, words and
actions.
Our beliefs create thoughts; thoughts create emotions; emotions create actions – actions of
positive values or negative values which depend on the quality of the Belief itself. These then
become internal Values.

11. Why ??? 10

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13. “ Show mercy to those on earth and God will show mercy on you ”
- Prophet Muhammad

14. In previous slide we can see in pictures that ,
when these poor children have not so much to eat , whatever they get they share
with others,
they stick together and care for each other,
they don't have home but they love their family,
and the most important thing is while facing all such hardships, they are Happy.
so we must learn such values to make our life happy and prosperous.

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16. “Beauty is not that which you were born , but the Real
beauty is your character based on Human Values”
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17. Thank you