Values, Virtues and Meanings

Exploring Values, Virtues and the Search for Meaning A Video Book XCHCS, Bhubaneswar ISI, New Delhi LIPI, Kochi 1

Virtues In Movement Project Primary Aims ๏ Understand virtues. ๏ Understand virtues in relation to values and meanings. ๏ Understand virtues in relation to the character of individuals. ๏ Understand virtues to act for the common or public good. Note This is a video book. Videos have been curated from youtube. Some are light and some heavy, some are simple and some are complex. So, please do study the videos in 2 or 3 sittings, if you cannot do it one sitting. It will also be good to hang on to a dairy or notebook as you go though the videos below. You may want to note down ideas, analyses, observations, connections, questions, and disagreement. This is a journey of learningful encounters and with persons and their ideas. It needs reflection and contemplation And to see how they figure in your world. 2

Virtues in Movement (1) Concerns and Questions 3

Questions That May Have Crossed Your Mind Am I living a peaceful, happy life? Why are so many with wealth/money so unhappy? Is justice and wellbeing reaching all? Why are there so much of pain, suffering and violence? What are values? What are virtues? Is my life meaningful or deeply meaningless? Do I need a purpose in life? Is it given? Or, I have to create it? Can I live life without values, virtues and meanings? What is the connection between the them? How do they affect my life? My community? Am I always honest, sincere and helpful? As a student, are virtues critical for whatever I studying for? How important is it for my career and my future as a citizen? 4

What Are We Faced With ? A Message to the World 5

Universities and The Betrayal of a Generation? 6

Stuck In A Race Race 7

Seeking Ways to Understand and Address The Challenges Before Us as Individual (and as Communities). 8

Virtues in Movement (2) Exploring Values and Virtues 9

Do Values Work without Virtues? 10

What is Virtue? A Small Boy Explores. 11

Values or Virtues? 12

Vices and Daily Acts of Goodness? 13

A Word of Caution About Being Virtuous 14

An Example of a Code of Virtue Bushido 15

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Virtues in Movement (3) Exploring the Search for Meaning 17

Existential Vacuum and Meaninglessness 18

Meaninglessness and the Will to Meaning 19

Stop Chasing Happiness, Seek Meaning 20

Meaningfulness: The Instinct of Life? 21

How Do I Bring Values, Virtues and Meanings into My Life as a Student and Citizen? Can I? Should I? 22

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