Publisher's Synopsis
IMPACT OF CHANGING HUMAN VALUES ON THE CHANGES IN NATURE WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO MANIPUR: A POST-INDEPENDENCE STUDY The present work is an attempt to understand the impact of changing human values on the changes in the natural world with a view to preserving and protecting the natural world in the manner of a refreshing new approach in a global age in Manipur in the post-independence period. It seeks to investigate the challenges that globalisation causes to traditional values in general as soon as in politics and international affairs and in environmental governments. Indeed, the human values that should inform the governance of modern nation-states and the globalising world in which they are increasingly enmeshed, in particular whether the liberal democratic values that sought to civilize sovereign nation-states need to be reconceived as universal values or global values. Human existence is value centric. The notion of value makes sense in human domain, in other words the essence of right and wrong, desirable and undesirable does not make any sense in the non-human world. Animals and birds behave under the force of instincts. Their behaviour is instinct driven whereas human instinct is driven by purpose and reason. The concept of value is supposed as freedom of will, man is free to choose right and wrong actions that is why it is only human action which is subject to valuation. Value has been sometimes defined as the capacity of an object which is to satisfy human need. Values also refer to the exchange of ability on the amount of commodity that money can ensure. Values in a moral sense refer to what is right or desirable in given existential context. They are also categorised as an intrinsic value when it is value for its own sake. It is not intelligible in terms.
