Cultivating the right intentions leads moral improvement, moral improvement leads to human flourishing.Sometimes we make horrible decisions that, luckily, don’t result in disaster. Sometimes we try to do heroic, loving, or generous deeds but don’t make any difference in the world. Moral improvement is a matter of improving your intentions, developing your character, and better understanding why you are aiming at particular morally important goals. And the good life is one that can be captured in a certain kind of story, one that depicts your own moral development accurately.

The Cause And Effect Of Goodness

The “ultimate good” for human beings will involve satisfying our animal needs while also building up virtuous traits of character, over time and in a rational way.Contemporary philosophers name this state as “flourishing”—the complete state of being a well-developed, accomplished, and happy (in the good-feeling sense) person. Those who achieve this goal will feel and act in ways that represent the best parts of our nature. They will acquire all the virtues—like courage, generosity, and wisdom—and will integrate them seamlessly in an intentional and purposefully lived life.

The Ultimate Good: Flourishing

Asking yourself the right questions, followed by deep contemplation is one way to nurture your virtues.The key to weathering any hardship or difficulty is to continually remind ourselves that what matters is not what happens to us but how we respond to it. Can you respond with kindness to those who offend you, or are you stricken with inner rage?The Stoics believed that once we realize that the only thing that really matters is the state of our soul (or character), we can respond to any external obstacles in life by summoning this truth.

The Only Thing That Matters

<ul><li>The Stoic General gives himself advice on virtue and reflects on what he has discovered about the good life in his own adventures.</li><li>He reflects on nature, change, death—not just for himself but for everything in the universe. When he has a question about reality, he writes that down as well. </li><li>He reflects on the meaning of others’ lives in relation to his own—what he has learned from them and why specifically their lives have been good.</li></ul>

The Three Contemplations Of Marcus Aurelius

The stories we tell ourselves shape our lives, the truth of these stories decide to what extent we live in reality.Storytelling is a skill that requires careful attention to the details of life. It requires developing a “morally thick” vocabulary that brings out the nuance in our intentions. Instead of thinking about our decisions in simple terms like “right,” “permissible,” or “inexcusable,” we need more expressive language to capture our situations and our responses to them. We’re sometimes “cowardly” even when we do the right thing. We can be “selfishly motivated,” or “generous.”

The Story Is The Reality

Think about walking from a very dark room into a brightly lit one. You don’t immediately see more—you probably see less. Your pupils have to contract. Your brain has to process very different information. This everyday visual experience is a guide to the more serious difficulty we face when we try to learn. The hard question is how we can move ourselves to see and love what’s real. Do we want the sun or the puppet show? This is the core drama of any great education.

Desire The Truth

Effective altruism is a philosophical movement dedicated to giving people extremely specific advice about how money should factor into living an ethical life.The effective altruism movement is an ethical system guided by three connected assumptions about the role that money plays in the morally good life

Effective Altruism

<ul><li>Many effective altruists think that our primary moral obligation is to reduce suffering and promote happiness and that we can measure the moral worth of our decisions based on how effective those decisions are at improving net happiness.</li><li>Earn to give:  Earn as much as you can. Then dedicate as much of your money as possible to the most effective causes for reducing suffering and promoting happiness.</li><li>Effective altruists think we should decide who to help and how by using data about which interventions are most effective at promoting happiness and reducing suffering.</li></ul>

Living Generously: The Features Of Effective Altruism

Virtue ethicists are sometimes accused of advocating a self-centred morality, one that overemphasizes how your spending and giving affect you, the giver, and your pursuit of eudaimonia. Shouldn’t morality be about other people—about selflessness? But the effective altruists are selfless in a way that few of us can stomach. Their approach makes it very hard to see where there is any room to grow as a person with moral accomplishments and commitments.

Virtue Ethics

Sometimes we make horrible decisions that, luckily, don’t result in disaster. Sometimes we try to do heroic, loving, or generous deeds but don’t make any difference in the world. Moral improvement is a matter of improving your intentions, developing your character, and better understanding why you are aiming at particular morally important goals.And the good life is one that can be captured in a certain kind of story, one that depicts your own moral development accurately, and incorporates other people and the ways you support them in their pursuit of the good life.

Looking Through A Moral Compass

A thought experiment to understand moral psychology:A trolley is careening out of control down some tracks, on a heading to strike and kill five workers. Do you pull the lever to redirect the train which kills only one person? If it is okay to pull the lever, would it also be okay to push one bystander onto some train tracks to stop the trolley from hitting the five workers (killing him in the process)? If one person dies in every scenario, why should it matter that she was pulled rather than pushed, the manner in which the killing happened?

The Trolley Problem

The surprising discovery is that subjects do have different reactions to these variations. The more “person-to-person” the trolley problem is, the more reluctant someone was to act. So people are more likely to pull a lever to change the tracks, much less likely to push another person to their death!

What The Trolley Example Proves

Emotions and pleasure may be felt both too much and too little, and in both cases not well; but to feel them at the right times, with reference to the right objects, towards the right people, with the right motive, and in the right way, is what is both intermediate and best, and this is characteristic of virtue.

Whereas goal-directed activities get their value from culminating in an achievement—crossing the finish line makes the painful marathon worth running—goalless activities have value apart from how they end.Goalless activities are valuable just because you’re doing them, and they continue to be valuable as long as you do them and aren’t diminished in value because they don’t culminate in some big accomplishment.In this category, we can put things like sitting on a quiet dock to watch the waves come in or playing with our kids until we lose track of time.

Contemplation is Pointless, And That Is The Point

Contemplation is continuous—it doesn’t have a clear beginning or end. If you are absorbed in a thought or a moment, there is no definite point when you have to turn away.And contemplation is leisurely—there is no set pace you should strive to do it at and no such thing as being an “efficient” contemplative. Contemplative activities don’t have bittersweet endings, because they don’t really have endings at all.

Contemplation

Are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation and honours as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth or the best possible state of your soul?

Principles that are mistakenly high and strict are a trap; they may easily lead in the end directly or indirectly to the justification of monstrous things

Two Philosophers Ask and Answer the Big Questions About the Search for Faith and Happiness For seekers of all stripes, philosophy is timeless self-care. Notre Dame philosophy professors Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko have reinvigorated this tradition in their wildly popular and influential undergraduate course “God and the Good Life,” in which they wrestle with the big questions about how to live and what makes life meaningful. Now they invite us into the classroom to work through issues like what justifies our beliefs, whether we should practice a religion and what sacrifices we should make for others—as well as to investigate what figures such as Aristotle, Plato, Marcus Aurelius, Iris Murdoch, and W. E. B. Du Bois have to say about how to live well. Sullivan and Blaschko do the timeless work of philosophy using real-world case studies that explore love, finance, truth, and more. In so doing, they push us to escape our own caves, ask stronger questions, explain our deepest goals, and wrestle with suffering, the nature of death, and the existence of God. Philosophers know that our “good life plan” is one that we as individuals need to be constantly and actively writing to achieve some meaningful control and sense of purpose even if the world keeps throwing surprises our way. For at least the past 2,500 years, philosophers have taught that goal-seeking is an essential part of what it is to be human—and crucially that we could find our own good life by asking better questions of ourselves and of one another. This virtue ethics approach resonates profoundly in our own moment. The Good Life Method is a winning guide to tackling the big questions of being human with the wisdom of the ages.

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Kansa was the heinous king of Mathura. He had a beastful army of Asuras. Due to which he had a win over every fight with devas and humans.Once Vasudev & Kansa's sister Devaki had their marriage, after which there was a Dev Vani ( Fortune Call From Sky) which stated that "Devaki's eighth child will be the terminator of Kansa and all his sinful deeds".

Atrocious King Kansa & Dev Vani

Kansa hearing this in rage captured the married couple and Ugrasena (Kansa's Father) was thrown into jail. After some months the first child was born, but was immediately choked by Kansa and so the others were simultaneously.When the 7th child was in stack, Lord Vishnu ordered Yogmaya to let Adi Sheha (Snake of Lord Vishnu) be born as Balram to the second wife of Vasudev - Rohini who was out of the prison.

Devaki's Heart-Piercing Sacrifices 

When time appeared for the 8th child, Lord Vishnu himself was born as a Lord Krisna through Devaki, meanwhile Yashoda in Vrundavan had given birth to a girl (Yogamaya). The prison magically was free out of locks and guards which allowed Vasudev to exchange Lord Krishna with Yashoda's child.After this activity the girl was killed but there appeared the Yogmaya Devi (Goddess) enraged & stating that his terminator's birth had already took place, fearing Kansa a bit.

Mount-Clashing Birth Of Lord Krishna

Born with chubby chicks, pearly eyes and peacock quill on head, he was always surrounded by his beloved ones due to his magical tune of flute which drove everybody.

Delightful Look Of Lord Krishna

Kansa simultaneously send his army of Asuras in purpose to massacre Lord Krishna, but failed everytime. The list includes putana, trinavarta, bakasur, aghasur, dhenukasur and pralambhsur.He grew to become a handsome and heart-winning individual. To fulfill his purpose he killed his Uncle King Kansa and set free everybody from prison.Narakasura was killed by Lord Krishna who had captured 16000 womans, thus today celebrated as Naraka Chaturdashi. The society won't accept them easily so Lord Krishna accepted them as wives.

Tales And Purpose Of Krishna

The Kansa was killed, Vasudev belong to the Yadavas race, Ugrasena was given the throne of Mathura. Most of the Yadavas moved to the new inbuilt city of Dwarka. Here, the Pandavas rose to power, where Arjuna and Lord Krishna met.

Re-Rise The Yadavas

"If you don't fight for what you want, don't cry for what you lost".

When on the battlefield of Mahabharata, Arjuna was moved away by the fact that he has to kill his grandfather, cousins and family members. He put down his Gandiva (Bow gifted by Lord Brahma), Lord Krishna then stated that -" All relations and bonds with the nature could fell apart but the real and truth will stay eternal upto the annihilation of the era. Only a true warrior will be able to reach a state of bliss and inner liberation to establish milestone peace by terminating the difference between the good and evil. "

Sip Advice Of Karma

After the mass killing of sons of Gandhari, Lord Krishna visited her at the end of Mahabharata, but in fist of rage and mourn she cursed him that after exactly 36 yrs later his Dwarka would be drown under the ocean, Yadavas race would come to an end and Lord Krishna would get killed. The day finally came in, the sky cried with mourn, the curse came to be true, Dwarka City was drowned by the Arabian Sea, Lord Krishna was mistakenly struck by a poisonous arrow by a hunter named Zara and finally Lord Krishna made his way to the sky in Vaikunthadham.

Unfortunate Curse Of Gandhari

Krishna Avatar - Eighth Avatar Of Vishnu | Dashavatar The eight incarnation of Vishnu is often debated to be between Krishna and his elder brother Balarama. But because Balaram, is an incarnation of Adi Shesha – the serpert of Vishnu, Krishna is collectively accepted as the eight incarnation of Vishnu. Krishna - one of the most widely popular of all Indian divinities, became the focus of numerous bhakti (devotional) cults, which have over the centuries produced a wealth of religious poetry, music, and painting. The basic sources of Krishna’s stories is from the epic Mahabharata and Bhagvat Purana. Krishna was raised as a cowherd in Gokul. Childhood of Lord Krishna is filled with stories of his mischievous pranks and incidents that depict his divine nature. According to a popular story, Krishna carried off the gigantic serpent Kaliya from the river to the sea. Sri Krishna also raised the Govardhana hill with his little finger and kept it as an umbrella to shield Vrindavan’s s people from the torrential rain caused by Lord Indra, who was irritated by Krishna. He was popular among the Gopis of Vrindavan, especially Radha. Radha and Lord Krishna grew up together and their story is romanticized as Rasa-lila. During his boyhood, due to unexpected events the news confirming that Krishna was indeed the son of Devaki and Vasudev broke out and Krishna had to leave to Mathura, leaving behind his other family of Nanda and Yashoda. On his return to Mathura, he slayed Kansa and restored his father to power. Sri Krishna became a counselor and friend to Pandava prince Arjuna. As the war progressed, Arjuna was moved by the deaths of his family members, when he put down his weapon, Lord Krishna then advised him about the battle and its repercussions, Karma, the purpose of life and death, the power of Dharma. This conversation between Lord Krishna and Arjuna soon extended to into a discourse which was later brought together as the Bhagvad Gita. Sri Krishna also revealed his universal form (Vishwa rupa) to Arjuna, showing Arjuna his full spiritual realization. After this, Arjuna became Sri Krishna’s disciple, not just an admirer and relative. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***Please Like, Share and Subscribe our videos.*** Press the bell button to stay notified about our new videos! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: 1. Some parts from this video like music, pictures and videos are sourced from the web. The Hindu Saga does not declare any ownership and is ready to give the rights to whoever it is due. 2. Multiple sources have been referred to create the content and story for the videos and we try our best to produce good content that seems authentic to our knowledge, however, we do not confirm the authenticity of the content and stories shared on channel. 3. Some of the links are affiliate links, which means if you use that link to buy something, I get a small kickback at no extra cost to you. :) #TheHinduSaga #IndianHistory #HinduHistory #Hinduism #IndianMythology #HinduMythology #HinduGods #ReligionExplained

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Moral injury is a trauma response to witnessing or participating in workplace behaviours that contradict one’s moral beliefs in high-stakes situations. Organisational decision makers are ultimately responsible for preventing moral injury, yet individual employees are often forced to deal with the consequences on their own.

Moral injury in the workplace

Terms used to describe responses to moral events.<ul><li>Moral challenges are single incidents or low-stakes transgressions, such as using lower-quality materials or requiring an employee to stay late as an exception.</li><li>Moral stressors involve more substantial or regular moral transgressions, for example, a dental practice that upsell patients on unnecessary treatments.</li><li>Injurious events, such as a health care worker that is required to provide a medical treatment that will lead to more unnecessary treatments.</li></ul>

A Continuum of harm

Denial of moral injury can be a coping mechanism. But that instinct to survive can lead to organisational Stockholm syndrome, where you form a bond with your abusive environment while ignoring its harmful effects. If you find yourself saying, “She probably didn’t mean it that way”, or “He’s just having a rough week again,” take note. It is fine to give someone the benefit of the doubt once or twice. But if it is a pattern that causes destructive outcomes for others, you have to face the harm.

Confront denial and listen to your pain

Moral injury is often described as the wounding of the soul and needs a particular kind of attention to heal. An honest conversation with a trusted professional is a good way to release the emotional pain. Restoration isn’t a quick process, but if you want to leave behind the remnants of moral injury, you’ll need to commit to the process.

Engage in “soul care” as self-care

The bitterness of moral injury can lead to craving revenge. However, any momentary satisfaction will be short-lived as you'll be compromising the very values that were injured. Learning to self-regulate is critical to steering clear of acting impulsively. A close confidant, mentor, or coach that you can call on short notice can be helpful.

Avoid vengeful and entitled reactions

When your conscience has been wounded, choosing forgiveness requires you to step back and explore your relationship to this often misunderstood value. <ul><li>Forgiveness is not the restoration of trust. Forgiveness means letting go of your bitterness and desire to pay back for the harm incurred. It's letting go of your anger as a source of motivation.</li><li>Forgiveness is a process. It's a daily choice to engage and release the emotions that flood your mind.</li></ul>

Determine what role forgiveness can play

Grappling with the harm we've caused is one of the most painful discoveries when dealing with moral injury. Guilt and shame can cause health issues. One way to shed regret and shame is to accept the things you did and didn't do. This will reignite your convictions.

Shed shame to restore your moral center

We cannot restore our conscience while continuing to violate our values. It also cannot heal in the same situation where the injury continues to take place. Sometimes it is possible to do good work or help change our organisation, such as helping to create new regulations. But if that's not possible, leaving the situation is a necessary step.

Change your situation

Moral injury occurs across occupations and is a trauma response to witnessing or participating in workplace behaviors that contradict one’s moral beliefs in high-stakes situations. While the ultimate responsibility for preventing moral injury rests on organizational decision makers, individual employees are often forced to deal with the consequences on their own. The authors’ advice, prompted by readers’ responses to their recent article, is directed to those who must take care of themselves while their employers put them into situations of moral harm. If your conscience has been wounded, even by your own hand, they offer six ways for you to begin your process of restoration.

What to Do If Your Job Compromises Your Morals

Morality emerges out of iterative voluntary games. What we regard as moral is the principle that most aptly governs the longest game.It's an idea Peterson borrowed from Jean Piaget, a Swiss psychologist. Piaget focused on kids as ways to understand humanity at large. He believed that the act of voluntary play in kids is the precursor to ethical societies. The games are thus micro-cosmoses of society and as we grow up we are just extending the game into adulthood.

Morality emerges from play

If you think life is not a game, then you are not playing it properly.

If 2 groups are playing a game: one group playing the game voluntarily and another one forced to do so .... The voluntary group will always outperform the other. Fiat, ruling through power, is demonstrably a sub-optimal strategy compared to freedom. This idea has implications in:<ul><li>economy: a regulated economy will be outperformed by a free economy</li><li>management: unrestrained teams are doing better than micro-managed ones </li><li>etc ....</li></ul>

Voluntary Games vs Fiat

Alan Watts used to say life is a dance, not a journey. The eastern tradition has identified play as a the natural state for peace. Interesting how a psychological analysis can come up with similar findings. 

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While concerns about AI and ethical violations have become common in companies, turning these anxieties into actionable conversations can be tough. With the complexities of machine learning, ethics, and of their points of intersection, there are no quick fixes, and conversations around these issues can feel nebulous and abstract. Getting to the desired outcomes requires learning to talk about these issues differently.

The Premise

Over the past several years, concerns around AI ethics have gone mainstream. The concerns, and the outcomes everyone wants to avoid, are largely agreed upon and well documented. No one wants to push out discriminatory or biased AI. No one wants to be the object of a lawsuit or regulatory investigation for violations of privacy. But once we’ve all agreed that biased, black box, privacy-violating AI is bad, where do we go from here? The question most every senior leader asks is: How do we take action to mitigate those ethical risks?

AI Ethics

Acting quickly to address concerns is admirable, but with the complexities of machine learning, ethics, and of their points of intersection, there are no quick fixes. To implement, scale, and maintain effective AI ethical risk mitigation strategies, companies should begin with a deep understanding of the problems they’re trying to solve. A challenge, however, is that conversations about AI ethics can feel nebulous. The first step, then, should consist of learning how to talk about it in concrete, actionable ways.

Understanding The Problems That Need To Be Solved

Summon a senior-level working group that is responsible for driving AI ethics in your organization. They should have the right skills, experience, and knowledge such that the conversations are well-informed about the business needs, technical capacities, and operational know-how. Involve four kinds of people: technologists, legal/compliance experts, ethicists, and business leaders. Their collective goal is to understand the sources of ethical risks generally, for the industry of which they are members, and for their particular company.

The People Who Need To Be Involved

You need the technologist to assess what is technologically feasible, not only at a per product level but also at an organizational level. That is because, in part, various ethical risk mitigation plans require different tech tools and skills. Knowing where your organization is from a technological perspective can be essential to mapping out how to identify and close the biggest gaps.

The Tech Guys

Legal and compliance experts are there to help ensure that any new risk mitigation plan is compatible and not redundant with existing risk mitigation practices. Legal issues loom particularly large in light of the fact that it’s neither clear how existing laws and regulations bear on new technologies, nor what new regulations or laws are coming down the pipeline.

The Legal Eagles

Ethicists are there to help ensure a systematic and thorough investigation into the ethical and reputational risks you should attend to, not only by virtue of developing and procuring AI, but also those risks that are particular to your industry and/or your organization. Their importance is particularly relevant because compliance with outdated regulations does not ensure the ethical and reputational safety of your organization.

The Path Correctors

Business leaders should help ensure that all risk is mitigated in a way that is compatible with business necessities and goals. Zero risk is an impossibility so long as anyone does anything. But unnecessary risk is a threat to the bottom line, and risk mitigation strategies also should be chosen with an eye towards what is economically feasible.

The Business Leaders

Once the team is in place, here are three crucial conversations to have. <ul><li>One conversation concerns coming to a shared understanding of what goals an AI ethical risk program should be striving for. </li><li>The second conversation concerns identifying gaps between where the organization is now and where it wants to be. </li><li>The third conversation is aimed at understanding the sources of those gaps so that they are comprehensively and effectively addressed.</li></ul>

Three Conversations to Push Things Forward

Any conversation should recognize that legal compliance (like the anti-discrimination law) and regulatory compliance are table stakes. The question to address is: Given that the set of ethical risks is not identical to the set of legal/regulatory risks, what do we identify as the ethical risks for our industry/organization and where do we stand on them?

Define Your Organization’s Ethical Standard for AI

There are various technical “solutions” or “fixes” to AI ethics problems. A number of software products from big tech to startups to non-profits help data scientists apply quantitative metrics of fairness to their model outputs. Tools like LIME and SHAP aid data scientists in explaining how outputs are arrived at in the first place. But virtually no one thinks these technical solutions, or any technological solution for that matter, will sufficiently mitigate the ethical risk and transform your organization into one that meets its AI ethics standards.

Identify the Gaps Between Where You Are Now and What Your Standards Call For

Your AI ethics team should determine where their respective limits are and how their skills and knowledge can complement each other. This means asking:<ul><li>What, exactly, is the risk we’re trying to mitigate?</li><li>How does software/quantitative analysis help us mitigate that risk?</li><li>What gaps do the software/quantitative analyses leave?</li><li>What kinds of qualitative assessments do we need to make, when do we need to make them, on what basis do we make them, and who should make them, so that those gaps are appropriately filled?</li></ul>

Know The Limits

Many conversations around bias in AI start with giving examples and immediately talking about “biased data sets.” Sometimes this will slide into talk about “implicit bias” or “unconscious bias,” which are terms borrowed from psychology that lack a clear and direct application to “biased data sets.” But it’s not enough to say, “the models are trained on biased data sets” or “the AI reflects our historical societal discriminatory actions and policies.”

Understand the Complex Sources of The Problems and Operationalize Solutions

Productive conversations on ethics should go deeper than broad stroke examples descried by specialists and non-specialists alike. Your organization needs the right people at the table so that its standards can be defined and deepened. Your organization should fruitfully marry its quantitative and qualitative approaches to ethical risk mitigation so it can close the gaps between where it is now and where it wants it to be. And it should appreciate the complexity of the sources of its AI ethical risks.

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Move from abstract concerns to actionable plans.

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