The great Indian epic: Beginning of the end - Foreword
FOREWORD Have you ever thought about how the values that we imbibe, or the value system in which we grew, came into existence? Does it ever make you wonder about those people who would have defined what is moral and ethical and what is not? Normally, we tend to think of our value system as something universal: A sense of fairness and righteousness that we carry within us that makes us uniquely human, But contrarily to this, Dr. Ian Morris, a professor of classics at Stanford University, in his latest book argues that our moral values are actually a function of the ways society organizes itself to get energy & according to Paul Chippendale “Values motivate whereas morals and ethics constrain." In my opinion, values describe how a person's life should be and morals and ethics determine how it should not be. With the onslaught of technology and blurring of physical boundaries, the value systems have changed and metamorphosed to suit current times just like in ...