The document discusses the concepts of values, human values, and why they are important. Some key points: 1) Values are personal beliefs that guide people's behavior and act as a code for how to behave. Human values promote harmony between all people regardless of attributes. 2) Important human values include respect, acceptance, consideration, appreciation, empathy and love towards others. These values help humanity live in harmony. 3) Values influence our relationships, careers, and other activities. They help us grow, develop the future we want, and bring love, peace and happiness. Positive values lead to freedom while negative values lead to conflict.

1. Presented by
Mrs. K.C. Mythili
Assistant Professor
Department of English & other Foreign Languages
SRM Institute of Science & Technology, Ramapuram

2. What are
VALUES?
What are
HUMAN
VALUES?
Why are they
IMPORTANT?

3. • Values are personal beliefs that steer people's
behaviour in one direction or the other.
• They act as a manual for how people should behave.
• In general, people have a tendency to adopt the ideals
that their parents instilled in them. Due to the fact that
• Values are unique to every culture and hence people
assume that theirs are "correct.

4. • Human values are the virtues that guide us to take
into account the human element when we interact
with other human beings.
• Values that help the entire humanity to live in
harmony with one another across class, culture,
race and religion.
• Human values are, for example, respect,
acceptance, consideration, appreciation, listening,
openness, affection, empathy and love towards
other human beings.

5. • Generate LOVE, PEACE & HAPPINESS
• Bring respect to the individuals
• Influences our decisions related to our
relationships, career, and other activities we
engage in.
• Help us to grow and develop.
• Help us to create the future we want to
experience.

6. Positive values lead us towards
 Freedom/Peace/Progress/Joy/Equality/Fulfilment
 Warm and uplifting
Negative values lead us towards
 Bondage/conflict/sorrow/frustration/vices/vacuum
 Discriminating and degrading

7. Love
Truth
Non-
violence
Peace
Righteous
ness

8.  The Highest Truth is absolute, changeless in the past,
present, and future, true at all times and in all places.
 Truth is not relative, changing according to our
perceptions and circumstances.
 Truth manifests as being truthful, honest, and
sincere, acting with integrity according to the dictates
of our conscience.

9. How to practice or promote TRUTH
1.Tell positive stories.
2.Don't set them up to lie.
3.Praise honesty and discipline calmly.
4.Be a role model.
5.Teach them how to be polite.
The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but
a lying tongue is but for a moment.

10. Truth Be Told: Ways to Demonstrate Honesty
• Think before you speak.
• Say what you mean and mean what you say.
• Bend over backward to communicate in an open
• and honest fashion.
• Simplify your statements so that everyone
clearly understands your message.
• Tell it like it is rather than sugarcoating it.

11. Truth Be Told: Ways to Demonstrate Honesty
•Present both sides of each issue to engender
objectivity.
•If you have a personal bias or a conflict of interest,
make it known.
•Tell people the rationale behind your decisions so
that your intent is understood.
•If something is misinterpreted, quickly correct the
record.
•Don’t shoot the messenger when someone tells you
the truth.
•Thank them for their honesty and treat the
information provided as a gift.

12. Truth Be Told: Ways to Demonstrate Honesty
•Willingly accept responsibility by admitting a mistake
or an error in judgment in a timely fashion.
•Hold people accountable when their words do not
match their actions.
•Never compromise your integrity and reputation by
associating yourself with people whose standards of
integrity you mistrust.

14. • Being morally right and justifiable.
• Righteous people does the right thing for other people and
also follow the laws of their religion. Heroes like Martin
Luther King are often called righteous.
 Right Action is speaking and acting on the truth that
emerges from the heart, the source of human conscience
and human values.
 When we engage in right action, we treat others the way
we wish to be treated, with respect, kindness, compassion,
with an understanding and appreciation of the unity of all
life.

15. Righteousness refers to acting in accord with
divine or moral law :
 free from guilt or sin.
 morally right or justifiable a righteous decision.
 arising from an outraged sense of justice or
morality righteous indignation.
 genuine, excellent.
Honesty, fairness, loyalty, sharing, and solidarity
makes an individual a righteous human being.

16. • The fruit of righteousness will be peace
• The effect of righteousness will be
quietness and confidence forever.

17.  Absolute Peace manifests as inner mental
calm, and the ability to maintain equanimity
in all situations.
 When we feel peaceful within ourselves we
will naturally feel peaceful towards others.

18. • It is NOT just absence of war, but absence of
violence in all forms- conflicts, threats to
life, social degradation, discrimination,
oppression, exploitation, poverty, injustice,
etc.
• It cannot be built on violent social structures.
• It emphasizes peaceful living and the values
upon which the society should be based.

19. • It is the process of acquiring values, knowledge
and developing attitudes, skills and behaviors to
live in harmony with oneself, with others and with
their environment.
• Inner peace, social peace and peace with nature.
• It instils the desire to detest war and promote
harmony.
• It signifies the presence of fairness, happiness,
equality, justice, freedom of expression and
personal growth at all levels.

21. PEACE in:
 Economics- Eradication of poverty.
 Politics- Outcome of democracy, resulting
from good governance.
 Law- Establishing Law & order
 Social harmony- Resolve conflicts among
diverse groups. Integrate such groups through
fair distribution of justice.

22. • Love gives people a greater sense of belonging,
meaning, and value at work that is unfortunately
vacant in many companies.
• It helps us to differentiate who we are by loving
people and watch it change the lives around us
and ultimately our workplace.
• Love Promotes Emotional and Mental Wellbeing

27. • The highest Love is selfless Love- unconditional,
without attachment, not expecting anything in return.
• Love can be for one's country, for a cherished aim,
for truth, for justice, for ethics, for people, for
nature. Love is the principle which creates and
sustains human relations with dignity and depth.
• Love means I can be kind, caring and understanding.
• Love is the basis for a belief in equality and
goodwill toward all.

28. • Gandhi understood nonviolence from its Sanskrit
root "Ahimsa".
• Ahimsa is just translated to mean nonviolence in
English, but it implies more than just avoidance
of physical violence.
• Ahimsa implies total nonviolence, no physical
violence, and no passive violence. Gandhi
translates Ahimsa as love.

29. • Gandhian nonviolence has affected global culture
in four ways. First, it changed for the better aspects
of the political culture of particular countries.
• In India, for example, it influenced the manner in
which colonialism was brought to an end and a
new political philosophy introduced.

30. • Avoiding causing harm to anyone or anything in
our thoughts, words, and deeds.
• Allows us to appreciate diversity, cultivate
tolerance, and recognize the unity of all beings
and respect for all life.

31. • Recent quantitative research has
demonstrated that nonviolent strategies are
twice as effective as violent ones.
• Organized and disciplined nonviolence can
disarm and change the world – and our lives,
our relationships and our communities.

32. 9 types of generic nonviolence are:
• Non-resistance
• Active reconciliation
• Moral resistance
• Selective nonviolence
• Passive resistance
• Peaceful resistance
• Nonviolent direct action
• Satyagraha
• Nonviolent revolution.

33. • Daily nonviolent choices and actions, the noble and
courageous spirit within each of us expresses itself
as the skills, wisdom and character of a nonviolent
human being.
• This is how we each, in our own way, move the
world in a direction of peace.
• Nonviolent action seeks to dramatize the issue (of
injustice) to put pressure on the adversary to
confront the issue.
• Nonviolent direct action seeks to create a
tension/crisis that would force the adversary to open
the door to negotiation.

34. Achieve Peace through Nonviolence:
1. Promote diplomacy and mediation as means for
resolving conflicts between the oppressed and
oppressors.
2. Advocate social justice, fair economic systems,
democratic principles, understanding, respect,
and tolerance between peoples.

35. Basic human value
In Speech
In Action
In Understanding
In Thought

36. Has Character anything
to do with VALUES?