PLEASE MATCH YOUR ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS ACCORDING TO YOUR SESSION
IGNOU MPYE-02 (July 2025 – January 2026) Assignment Questions
1. What are the normative characters of Social institutions? Discuss the role of social institutions in the sphere of morality.
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Describe and evaluate general features of Discourse Ethics as presented by Habermass.
2. What is sustainable development? What is the role and limit of sustainable development to save our environment? Which idea you will wish to present to save our environment? Why?
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Explain and evaluate the idea of diversity of morals given by Morris Ginsberg.
3. Give answer of any two questions in about 250 words each.
a) “Violence is morally wrong.” How would intuitionist, realist and relativist analyze this moral statement?
b) Critically evaluate the idea of cultural relativism in the field of morality.
c) Discuss logical positivist’s general position on moral statements.
d) Compare human order with moral order.
4. Give answer of any four questions in about 150 words each.
a) Write a note on the D. Ross’s idea of human duties.
b) Write a note on the social responsibility of media.
c) Compare Aristotle’s and MacIntyre’s virtue ethics.
d) Describe the idea of existentialist humanism.
e) Discuss the cosmopolitan view on international ethics.
f) Write a comparative essay on doctrine of karma in Hinduism and Buddhism.
5. Write short notes on any five in about 100 words each.
a) Panchasila
b) Karma in Buddhism
c) Eudemonia
d) Situation Ethics
e) Utilitarianism
f) Free Will
g) Human Rights
h) Categorical Imperative
IGNOU MPYE-02 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions
1. What are three postulates of morality in Kantian Ethics? Discuss briefly.
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Describe and evaluate general features of Discourse Ethics as presented by Habermass.
2. What is sustainable development? What is the role and limit of sustainable development to save our environment? Which idea you will wish to present to save our environment? Why?
Or
Explain and evaluate the idea of diversity of morals given by Morris Ginsberg.
3. Give answer of any two questions in about 250 words each.
a) What do you understand by Right to Life? Discuss the idea of dignified life in the context of cultural relativism and realism.
b) Discuss logical positivist’s general position on moral statements.
c) Compare human order with moral order.
d) Write a note on media ethics.
4. Give answer of any four questions in about 150 words each.
a) Describe the idea of existentialist humanism.
b) “Public is the real censor board.” What is your opinion on this view? Give your arguments.
c) Discuss the cosmopolitan view on international ethics.
d) Evaluate moral pluralism in the light of Bio Ethical issues.
e) Briefly discuss distributive justice.
f) Write a comparative essay on doctrine of karma in Hinduism and Buddhism.
5. Write short notes on any five in about 100 words each.
a) Hypothetical Imperative
b) Eudemonia
c) Pancasila
d) Human Right
e) Derived Norms
f) Good Will
g) Determinism
h) Distributive Justice




