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1. Prologue
2. 3 Types of Judgments
3. 3 Areas in Study of Ethics
1. S1:Meta-Ethics / Critical Ethics
2. S2: Applied Ethics
3. S3: Normative vs. Descriptive Ethics
4. Ethics vs. Morality?
5. Legality vs. Morality
4. 3 Preconditions for Ethical Scrutiny
1. Pc1: Free Will
2. Pc2: Knowledge
3. Pc3: Voluntary Action
5. Case study: Memento
6. Case Study: Crank
Prologue
This article series based on Ethics Lectures by Mr.Kavan Limbasiya (AIR-198, IRS-IT) at
SPIPA, Ahmedabad
The Syllabus of UPSC General Studies Paper-4 Ethics is available here click me
(http://mrunal.org/ethics#syllabus). Accordingly, we can divide the Ethics topic into 8 parts
[Ethics] E1/P1: Human Interface: Types of Judgments, Prerequisite for
Ethical scrutiny, Meta Ethics, Applied ethics, Normative-Descriptive ethics
English: SP Bakshi
(http://www.flipkart.com/objective-general-
english-2012/p/itmdyuqqgafhtehp?
pid=9788183480000&affid=mrunalrugm)
Mrunal (http://mrunal.org/)
First part would be Ethics and Human interface- further subdivided into three articles
E1/P1: Types of Judgments, Pre-requisite for Ethical scrutiny, Meta Ethics, Applied ethics,
Normative-Descriptive ethics.
E1/P2: Theories of Ethics: virtual ethics, deontological vs. teleological ethics, utilitarianism,
hedonism, epicureanism, egoism, conduct ethics etc.
E1/P3: Values, Role of family-society-educational institutions in inculcating values, ethics
and private and public relationships.
3 Types of Judgments
1.Factual or
Epistemological
Earth rotates around Sun. Whether you test or an alien species tests,
the fact will remain the same. There are only two outcomes: True /
False
They’re not morally right or wrong. They’re morally empty, they’re
“amoral”.
2.Aesthetic
Judgment
Concept of beauty, taste, color, sensualities.
One person may like red color the other person may like blue color.
3.Moral
Judgment
Our sense of good/bad/right/wrong.
IN GS paper 4, we are concerned with this.
Question: Are these three judgments inter-related?
Traditional thinkers considered them one and same i.e. what is ‘true’ (factual) is ‘beautiful’