Presentation: Concept of Good Life in Indian Context

The good life is one in which what someone does and feels leads to and is constitutive of their fulfillment, also called happiness. Such happiness is neither primarily an experience; nor is it found as a consequence of following moral laws. Instead, happiness is fundamentally an activity: it is the state of the person who is living without hindrance the life that becomes a human being. The good life is the primary source of happiness. Here we will discuss the concept of the good life in the Indian Context.

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^{Delivered a lecture on “Concept of Good Life in Indian Context” at “Centre of Excellence” Govt. Degree College, Sanjauli, Shimla on 23rd November 2022.}

Presentation:E-learning and Research

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  The emerging trend all over the world is towards more individualized and flexible forms of learning with an emphasis on the individual learning. The National Policy on Education (1986) has emphasized the application of Educational Technology to improve the Quality of Education at all levels. E-content is a very power full tool of education. E-content is valuable to the learners and also helpful to teachers of all individual instruction systems; E-content is the latest method of instruction that has attracted more attention to gather with the concept of models differences of the learners.

  
  

  Note: Delivered Lecture on “ E-learning and Research” in the Lecture Series on Research Methodology organized by the Department of Economics, Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi (UP) h^{eld on 12th April, 2022.}

Presentation: Value Education: An Overview of Educational Initiatives taken in India

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The most effective strategy for building societal harmony and cohesion is education. India's national goals include internalizing secularism, supporting democracy, ensuring equality, pursuing national unity, revitalizing fraternity, and delivering social justice and liberty. The educational system must consider human needs, viewpoints, and desires. It must raise awareness of and respect for human rights and human values. The essential obligations outlined in Article 51(A) of the Constitution must be internalized by every child. The 42^nd Amendment incorporated compassion, scientific temper, humanism, abjuring violence, and other fundamental duties into the Indian Constitution, including India's unity and integrity, harmony, spirit of common brotherhood, preservation of our composite culture's rich cultural heritage, compassion, scientific temper, humanism, and abjuring violence. These also highlight the need to improve and develop. In this paper an attempt is made to overview the educational initiatives taken for propagation of value education in Indian educational curriculum. 

Key-words: Value Education, Indian Education Policies, Constitutional Values, Indian Culture.

Note: Presented in Online Refresher Course on Indian Philosophy by CPDHE, UGC-HRDC, University of Delhi on 28th February, 2022.

Aristotle on Happiness and the Good Life

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Aristotle was the last, and the most influential of the Greek philosophers. Aristotle studied philosophy as well as different branches of natural sciences. In fact, he had a keen interest in the world of experience and is the founder of at least two sciences: (1) Logic and (2) Biology. Aristotle’s system of philosophy falls into the fivefold division of Logic, metaphysics, physics, ethics and aesthetics. Aristotle talks about the ultimate good being eudaimonia  – a good life, a flourishing life, a fulfilled and worthwhile life. Reflecting on ideals and connecting them to reality is only the first step in the search for the good life. A For Aristotle the final end of human life is to flourish, to live well, to have a good life. All acts should aim at this end. According to Aristotle, the good life consists in the possession, over the course of a lifetime, of all those things that are really good for us.  Aristotle’s purpose in the Nicomachean Ethics is not just to explain the philosophy of the excellence for human beings but also to demonstrate specifically how human beings can lead lives of excellence as activity in accordance with practical and theoretical reason. The objective of this paper is to study the concept of happiness and the good life according to Aristotle.

Key-Words: Ethics, Aristotle, Happiness, Virtue, Good Life.

भारत में नैतिक नेतृत्व: वर्तमान परिदृश्य एवं भविष्य

भारत में नैतिक नेतृत्व: वर्तमान परिदृश्य एवं भविष्य 

(Ethical Leadership in India: Present Scenario and Future)

डॉ देशराज सिरसवाल

शोध-पत्र सार

“नेतृत्व” एक विस्तृत प्रत्यय है जो कई सदियों से समाजशास्त्र, मनोविज्ञान, राजनीति शास्त्र, लोकप्रशासन के अध्ययन का विषय रहा है. यह एक ऐसा शब्द है जो जेहन में आते ही राजनीतिज्ञ अथवा राजनीति का बोध कराता है परन्तु वास्तव में ऐसा नहीं है | इसका दायरा असीमित है | समाज को को दिशा देना, भावी पीढ़ी का मार्गदर्शन करना, समानता की भावना पैदा करना,  समाज  के प्रति उतरदायी बनाना इत्यादि भी नेतृत्व करने वालों का ही कार्य है. “नैतिक नेतृत्व” से अभिप्राय उस नेतृत्व से है जो नैतिक मूल्यों पर आधारित हो और दूसरों को गरिमापूर्ण  जीवन और अधिकारों के प्रति संघर्ष के लिए वचनबद्ध हो. जब हम “नैतिक नेतृत्व” की बात करते हैं तो हमारे सामने ऐसे नेता की छवि उत्पन्न होती हैं जो अपने चरित्र से, अपने कर्म से, अपने निर्णयों से और अपनी विस्तृत समझ से  लोहा मनवा चुका होता है. भारत जैसे लोकतान्त्रिक देश में आज “नैतिक नेतृत्व” की ज्यादा आवश्यकता है क्योंकि हम किसी भी क्षेत्र में देख लें तो जो लोग समाज और देश का नेतृत्व की बात करते हैं उनके प्राय लोकतान्त्रिक मूल्यों का अभाव, धन लोलुपता, कर्महीनता और आदर्श जीवन के प्रति नकारात्मक भाव इत्यादि दुर्गुण देखने को मिलते हैं. भारत में जब भी हम नैतिक नेतृत्व की बात करते हैं तो हमारा अभिप्राय उस “आदर्श नेतृत्व” से है जो समाज के हर क्षेत्र में  न्याय, समानता और भ्रातृत्व के गुणों से युक्त हो और उस सभ्यता/ शिष्टाचार के जीवन में प्रयोग से है जोकि लोकतान्त्रिक देश में न्याय, समानता की स्थापना में सहयोग दे सके. प्रस्तुत शोध पत्र में हमारा मुख्य उद्देश्य भारत की वर्तमान सामाजिक-धार्मिक- राजनैतिक परिस्थितियों के सन्दर्भ में “नैतिक नेतृत्व” के विभिन्न पक्षों का अध्ययन करना है.

Note: To be presented at UGC Sponsored Two-Day National Seminar on "Contemporary Ethics: Theoretical, Practical and Methodological Disquiet" 6-7 February, 2017 at Department of Philosophy, Singhbhum College, Kolhan University, Jharkhand.

TEACHING AIDS AND MODES IN ACADEMIC PHILOSOPHY

TEACHING AIDS AND MODES IN ACADEMIC PHILOSOPHY

Dr. Desh Raj Sirswal

Abstract

Philosophy is the study of the most general and fundamental problems of human life. The main areas of study in philosophy includes metaphysics, epistemology, logic, ethics and aesthetics etc. there are other several branches of philosophy which characterize different branches of knowledge. Philosophy being a very abstract branch of study, has not much scope of using equipment on a large scale to supplement the normal lecture schedules. However, in some papers/areas there are comparatively better scope to make the lectures more concrete and interesting through proper use of various teaching aids and modes. We include logic, philosophy of science, applied philosophy, applied ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science and history of philosophy etc., we can use various modern aids. In this article my attempt is to draw out an outlines of aids and modes for effective philosophy teaching.

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 ü  “Teaching Aids and Modes in Academic Philosophy” in University News, Vol.51, No.18, May 06-12, 2013,pp.21-23 (ISSN: 0565-2257).