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SOCIAL, MORAL AND ETHICAL VALUES AS PRECURSOR TO HUMANISM/DIVINISM/
SPIRITUALISM
K. L. Madhok
Background
We all are familiar, as per the convention, that all problems in their diminutive sense are designated as social, political, commercial, economic, religious, national or international problems and the like. In a way, if we think with a cool mind, we will come to the conclusion that the various problems which we discuss in our day-to-day conversation are really the sub-problems, which should get merged under the main heading of social or human problems. The aforesaid sub-problems are merely the offshoots of the "human or social problems” and definitely have a direct or indirect social content in them.
We further mention that the sub-problems are sociopolitical, socio-economic, socio-commercial, socio-religious etc. There emerges from inter-disciplinary configuration no such problem which does not contain the social content. Social content-whether in small or large proportion, existing in a problem, only makes the problem basically a social problem. Hence, we have to infer that all problems can be designated as social or human problems whilst our approach to employ other sub-titles as political, economic, commercial, industrial, religious etc. etc. should culminate in branding them as socially-oriented sub-problems, falling within the broad classification of social or human problems.
Till the moment we do not relate the sub-servient problems with the social aspect, it is then only a nonsocial or a theoretical problem which may or may not have
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