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Assignment for TEE June 2025 and TEE December 2025
BAG Philosophy
BPYC-132 Ethics
Note:
1. Give Answer of all five questions.
2. All five questions carry equal marks
3. Answer to question no. 1 and 2 should be in about 400 words each.
4. If any question has more than one part, please attempt all parts. Each part has separate marks.
1. What is Moral Action, according to Immanuel Kant? What are the Philosophical views on
Moral Action?
Or
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Do you think that Moral Principles are universal in nature? Evaluate realist and relativist views
on this subject matter.
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2. What is Virtue Ethics? What are different types of virtues according to Aristotle?
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What is individual Subjectivism? What are the possible objections towards this theory?
3. Answer any two of the following questions in about 200 words each.
a) Differentiate between cognitivism and non-cognitivism.
b) “Suicide is morally wrong.” Give different kinds of arguments to prove this thesis.
c) Natural Moral Law and Human Dignity.
d) The Significance of RM Hare’s Prescriptivism in Moral Philosophy.
4. Answer any four of the following four questions in about 150 words each.
a) What are four cardinal virtues according to Plato? Discuss briefly.
b) Write a note on Emotivism.
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2*10= 20
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4*5= 20
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c) Distinguish Normative Relativism and Descriptive Relativism?
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d) Discuss in brief the major difference between Utilitarianism and Deontology.
e) Significance of Emotivism in moral philosophy.
f) Explain ethical principles of Buddhism.
g) Why we should be moral? Discuss
5. Write short notes on any five of the following in about 100 words each.
a) Critical Appraisal of Utilitarianism
b) Consequentialism
c) Ethical Non-cognitivism
d) Socratic maxim ‘Virtue is Knowledge’.
e) Nishkama Karma
f) Ethical Naturalism
g) Hedonism
h) Categorical Imperative
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