Manuj Jindal

AIR 53 · CSE 2016

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• (a) What are human nature and its role in guiding human conduct? How human nature of Indian people can be described? (i) It is due to human nature that India has peace and harmony in our society. (ii) Human nature of people is responsible for no or slow progress of our country in many aspects. GS4
• (b) The idea of 'minimum government and maximum governance' has become a popular model of governance today. In the light of this statement, analyse the following questions with suitable illustrations and in the end explain how ethics can help in reconciling both views? i. It propagates the philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi-that people should govern themselves, that is, self governance. ii. This idea runs afoul to the fact that people cannot govern themselves, they must be governed. GS4
• (a) Since there are law, rules, regulations, ethics and conscience to guide public servants conducts, most of the time they may face moral dilemma. In this context consider the following questions: i. In such situation one should give preference to law and rule over conscience as the latter is difficult to establish objectively. ii. Explain with any specific example which has conflict between them that how you will overcome such moral dilemma? GS4
• (b) Socialisation can be considered as the ethical eco-system for a child which shapes his/her future character and conduct. i. Discuss how socialisation has undergone changes in 21st century from that of 20th century? ii. There is a view that traditional values have eroded. Discuss how it has posed challenges in values inculcation to social institutions such as family and parents? GS4
• Given are two quotations of moral thinker/philosophers. For each of these, bring out what it means to you in the present context: (a) "It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get." GS4
• (b) "The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it" (150 words) [10] GS4
• (a) Should society adhere to its tradition and culture or it should accept change? In this context consider the following questions: i. Tradition and culture give identity to society and hence, it should not be changed. ii. Change is inevitable, it is only unchanging reality. In the end, discuss how ethics can help in bringing clarity on the above issue. GS4
• (b) Discuss the following questions based on role and responsibility of an ethical public administrator. i. He/she must pay attention to both, immoral means to attain moral ends; and moral means to attain moral ends. ii. He/she must prefer policy impartiality over ethical neutrality. GS4

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