BPYG-171 EM 2025 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT

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Assignment for TEE June 2025 and TEE December 2025
BAG Philosophy
Course: Applied Ethics (Generic Course)
Course code: BPYG-171

Note:
1. Give Answer of all five questions.
2. All five questions carry equal marks
Maximum marks: 100
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. Explain the ethical issues associated with technology and innovation.
Or
Discuss in detail preference utilitarianism of Peter Singer in the context
of animal rights.
2. What is Bioethics? Briefly discuss some key bioethical issues.
Or
Write a note on the following in about 200 words each:
a) Difference between ‘Morality’ and ‘Ethics’
b) Applied Ethics
3. Answer any two of the following in about 200 words each:
a) What are the salient features of anthropocentric ethics?
b) Explain the ‘Is-Ought’ gap.
c) Discuss the different ways to define the idea of personhood.
20
20
20
10+10=20
10*2=20
10
10
10
d) Write a note on the relation between justice and morality. 10
4. Answer any four of the following in about 150 words each:
4*5=20
a) Discuss the theory of environmental ethics.
5
1
2

b) Write a note on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). 5
c) Discuss briefly the debate between ‘right to life’ vs ‘right to choose’. 5
d) What is terrorism? Why terrorism is harmful for the social fabric? 5
e) Write a note on professional ethics. 5
f) Discuss the abolitionist position in the context of capital punishment. 5
5. Write short notes on any five of the following in about 100 words each: 5*4=20
a) Hippocratic Oath 4
b) Climate change 4
c) Freedom of expression 4
d) Surrogacy 4
e) Doctrine of double effect 4
f) Privacy 4
g) Technological enthusiasm 4
h) Corporate governance