Human Values & Professional Ethics

Table of Content

Module 1: Course Introduction: Need, Basic Guidelines, Content and Process of Value Education

1. Understanding the need, basic guidelines, content and process for value education.
2. Self Exploration – what is it? – its content and process; ‘Natural Acceptance’ and Experiential Validation – as the mechanism for self exploration.
3. Continuous Happiness and Prosperity – A look at basic Human Aspiration.
4. Right understanding, Relationship and Physical Facilities – the basic requirements for fulfillment of aspirations of every human being with their correct priority.
5. Understanding Happiness and Prosperity correctly – A critical appraisal of the current scenario.
6. Method of fulfill the above human aspirations: understanding and living in harmony at various levels.

Module 2: Understanding Harmony in the Human Being – Harmony in Myself

7. Understanding human being as a co-existence of the sentient ‘I’ and the material ‘Body’.
8. Understanding the needs of Self ‘I’ and ‘Body’ – Sukh and Suvidha
9. Understanding the Body as an instrument of ‘I’ (1 being the doer, seer and enjoyer)
10. Understanding the characteristics and activities of ‘I’ and harmony in ‘I’.
11. Understanding the harmony of I with the Body “ Sanyam and Swastha; correct appraisal of Physical needs, meaning of prosperity in detail.
12. Programs to ensure Sanyam and Swasthya

– Practice Exercise and Case Studies will be taken up in practice sessions.

Module 3: Understanding Harmony in the Family and Society – Harmony in Human – Human Relationship

13. Understanding harmony in the Family – the basic unit of human interaction.
14. Understanding values in human – human relationship; menaing of Nyaya and program for its fulfillment to ensure Ubhay-tripti; Trust (Vishwas) and Respect (Samman) as the foundational values of relationship.
15. Understanding the meaning of Vishwas; Difference between intention and competence.
16. Understanding the meaning of Samman. Difference between respect and differentiation; the other salient values in relationship.
17. Understanding the harmony in the society (society being an extension of family); Samadhan, Samridhi, Abhay, Sah-astitva as comprehensive Human Goals.
18. Visualizing a universal harmonious order in society-undivided Society (Akhand Samaj), Universal Order (Sarvabhaum Vyawastha) – from family to world family.

Practice Exercise and Case Studies will be taken up in practice sessions.

Module 4: Understanding Harmony in the Nature and Existence – Whole existence as Co-existence

19. Understanding the harmony in the nature.
20. Interconnectedness and mutual fulfillment among the four orders of nature – recyclability and self regulation in nature.
21. Understanding existence as co-existence (Sah – astitva) of mutually interacting units in all pervasive space.
22. Holistic perception of harmony at all levels of existence.

–     Practice Exercise and Case Studies will be taken up in practice sessions.

Module 5: Implications of the above Holistic Understanding of harmony on professional ethics

23. Natural acceptance of human values.
24. Definitiveness of Ethical Human Conduct
25. Basis for humanistic education, humanistic constitution and humanistic universal order
26. Competence in professional ethics:
27. a) Ability to utilize the professional competence for augmenting universal human order.
28. b) Ability to identify the scope and characteristics of people friendly and eco-friendly production systems.
29. c) Ability to identify and develop appropriate technologies and management patterns for above production systems.
30. Case studies of typical holistic technologies, management models and production systems.
31. Strategy for transition from the present state to universal human order:
32. a) At the level of individual: as society and ecologically responsible engineers, technologists and managers.
33. b) At the level of society: as mutually enriching institutions and organizations.