Course Contents:

a) Four Purusarthās – dharma, artha, kāma and mokṣa and their interrelation. Karma (Sakāma & Niṣkāma), Cārvāka Ethics.

b) Buddhist Ethics: The Four Noble Truths and the Eight-Fold Path.

c) Moral and Non-Moral Actions, Object of Moral Judgement.

d) Teleological Ethics: Utilitarianism (Bentham and Mill). Deontological Ethics: Kant’s Moral Theory.

e) Theories of Punishment.