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.