Exam Details

Subject Ethics
Paper
Exam / Course M.A. PHILOSOPHY (MAPY)
Department School of Interdisciplinary and Trans-Disciplinary Studies (SOITDS)
Organization indira gandhi national open university
Position
Exam Date December, 2016
City, State new delhi,


Question Paper

1. What do you understand by situation ethics
Discuss various challenges of situation ethics.
OR
Elaborate Existentialist Humanism. Do you agree that human person must invent his values? Explain.

2. Describe virtue ethics. Critically examine its relationship with Deontology.
OR
What are the ethical responsibilities of social institutions? Discuss in detail.

3. Answer any two of the following in about 250 words each:

What are the four Ashramas Explain their significance in an individual's life.

Explain Levinas' philosophy of responsibility for the other.

Elaborate the Buddhist concepts of ethics.

Explain briefly the nature of intrapersonal and interpersonal conflicts in simple subjectivism.

4. Answer any four of the following in about 150 words each

What is media ethics?

Distinguish between values and norms.

Mention some of the contributions made by Bio-ethics to medicine.

Differentiate between consequentialism and non-consequentialism.

Is morality dynamic? Comment.

What do you mean by environmental ethics?

5. Write short notes on any five of the following in about 100 words each:

Perceptual Relativism

Indeterminism

Discourse Ethics

Human Rights

Concept of Virtue in Taoism

Eudemonia

International Ethics

Jaina Ethics


Departments

  • Centre for Corporate Education, Training & Consultancy (CCETC)
  • Centre for Corporate Education, Training & Consultancy (CCETC)
  • National Centre for Disability Studies (NCDS)
  • School of Agriculture (SOA)
  • School of Computer and Information Sciences (SOCIS)
  • School of Continuing Education (SOCE)
  • School of Education (SOE)
  • School of Engineering & Technology (SOET)
  • School of Extension and Development Studies (SOEDS)
  • School of Foreign Languages (SOFL)
  • School of Gender Development Studies(SOGDS)
  • School of Health Science (SOHS)
  • School of Humanities (SOH)
  • School of Interdisciplinary and Trans-Disciplinary Studies (SOITDS)
  • School of Journalism and New Media Studies (SOJNMS)
  • School of Law (SOL)
  • School of Management Studies (SOMS)
  • School of Performing Arts and Visual Arts (SOPVA)
  • School of Performing Arts and Visual Arts(SOPVA)
  • School of Sciences (SOS)
  • School of Social Sciences (SOSS)
  • School of Social Work (SOSW)
  • School of Tourism & Hospitality Service Sectoral SOMS (SOTHSM)
  • School of Tourism &Hospitality Service Sectoral SOMS (SOTHSSM)
  • School of Translation Studies and Training (SOTST)
  • School of Vocational Education and Training (SOVET)
  • Staff Training & Research in Distance Education (STRIDE)

Subjects

  • Dalit Philosophy
  • Epistemology
  • Ethics
  • Gandhian Philosophy
  • Indian Philosophy
  • Logic
  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophy Of Art (Aesthetics)
  • Philosophy Of Human Person
  • Philosophy Of Mind
  • Philosophy Of Religion
  • Philosophy Of Science And Cosmology
  • Philosophy Of Sri Aurobindo
  • Philosophy Of Technology
  • Research Methodology In Philosophy
  • Tribal Philosophy
  • Western Philosophy
  • World Religions