期刊名称：International Journal of Humanities & Social Science Studies
印刷版ISSN：2349-6711
电子版ISSN：2349-6959
出版年度：2015
卷号：2
期号：1
页码：88-93
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出版社：Scholar Publications
摘要：A Human being and his innate values are inseparable, as is any object and its reflection. Though it is not always apparent, it indeed exists and gets expressed when it finds the situation appropriate. The main obstructions in the way of its expression are violence and enmity, selfishness, economic crisis, superstition, political corruption, class division and cast distinction. If we look back through time, we would see that the last two causes come out as the penultimate reason behind this social and humanistic degradation. It might not have been as prominent as we see in Horoppa and Mahenjadaro, yet, at the initial stage of Arian civilization, especially during the Rig-Vedic age, the seed of this distinction had already been sown when people were distinguished according to their merits and quality of activities. This distinction became more rigid during the later period of Atharva-Vedic age, the reflection of which, even in more deteriorated form, we find in the Primary epics and the Puranas. And with the concretization of this distinction, begins the deterioration of human values. The books like “Yajnavalkyasamhita”, “Manusamhita”, “Arthashastra”, “Mricchakatikam”, etc. reflected this deterioration. The question is, despite the sincere attempts from the great persons like Rammohan, Vivekananda to uplift people from such orthodox value-system, have we really been able to come out of its derogatory effect? Key Words: value system, degradation, class distinction, time, civilization.
