Module 12: Human values and humanism: dilemmas and directions
  Lecture 38: Value Education-III (Professional Ethics)

There are deeper conflicts within all of us. A few examples of these conflicts are:

  • Conflict between human response on the one hand and familial, religious, cultural, nationalistic and other representations and interests. All of us accept a common humanness of all of us but familial, religious, cultural, nationalistic and many other ideas are very very strong and conflict with undisturbed human response.

  • Conflict between what we consider to be right and what is considered to be right from us in a given role. We also know that going against familial, religious, cultural, and nationalistic injunctions is not a simple matter of choice. Perceived deviations are associated with sanctions – positive as well as negative.

  • A conflict between the idea that if I have right understanding things will be better and the experience that things can be better only when all have the right understanding.

  • In a situation of high scarcity of professional positions the risks of ethical decisions may often conflict with survival, not to talk about success or career.

  • Conflict between competing notions of what is right.