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The Thirukkural's longest book is not about virtue or love but about governing, which makes it the classical Indian text closest to a manual…
Sikh ethics is the one tradition in this part of the syllabus that begins by refusing withdrawal — moral life happens in a household,…
Jainism contributes two things the ethics syllabus badly needs: a theory of restraint that treats possession itself as a moral problem, and anekantavada —…
Buddhist ethics is usually taught as history. Read as ethics, it is unusually procedural: a diagnosis, a set of trainings rather than commandments, and…
Adam Smith is remembered for the invisible hand and forgotten for the book he cared about more. Its central device — an impartial spectator…
Detachment from the fruit of action is the most quoted Indian ethical idea in Indian public life and the most often misused. The Gita's…
Dharma is not the Indian word for religion, and it is not a code of commandments. It is a framework in which duty is…
Four worked cases on the commonest dilemma in the paper: an instruction you cannot lawfully carry out, from someone who can damage you. Each…
Corporate governance is named in the GS IV syllabus and usually skipped. Its central Indian question is not managers against owners — it is…
The most quotable document in the probity syllabus, and the most selectively implemented. Its central argument was that character alone will not produce integrity…
Nietzsche asked a question the other thinkers skip: not which morality is true, but where our morality came from, and whose interests it served.…
Hume noticed that no amount of description of how the world is can, by itself, establish how it ought to be. Once you see…