Values and Justice A New Perspective

Author(s): Hemant Shah
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Philosophical Writings
Socialist Secular Republic to secure to all its citizens Justice, Liberty, Equality and Fraternity as it is in India's constitution are the most important ones to be practiced.
Everywhere we find peoples' light about taxes, inflation going high and price rising making living struggling, against government programmes - resulting into students unrest , labour's pathetic plight, women feeling unjustified and children, no body to bother for their education and health, the insecurity and uncertainty dragging everyone to a stressful life. We find all these things, but the real battle is more profound: it is about the nature of society; and the relationship between the individual and the society. Neither society is for the individual ( as western philosophy puts) nor individuals is for the society (as Indian Philosophy says). Both, the individual and the society, are the better halves of the same one. Both make one. One may call them two sides of the same coin. We are happy with the Unified Nations on its Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 1948. But, of "what value is the freedom of speech to a man who is so starved that he can hardly speak, freedom of press to a woman who has not had an education and can not read?"29
I would strongly plead for certain traditional values we have under- estimated. Values such as trust and loyalty in making our economic system work, are of great relevance in today's world. The government, even if playing an important role, it is yet limited in working towards social justice. We all believe, while markets are at the centre of the success of our economy, markets do not always work well by themselves, why they does not solve all problems, and why government will always be an important partner to them. All the nations pass through crisis. As the world went into crises after September 11, we realized that we had to act together. “Learning to live together" has become significantly important and a necessity to safeguard our existence.
Often we mention Nietzche and his philosophy of 'Nihilism', which emerged in Germany towards the end of nineteenth Century.