Category: GS 4

Gandhianism starts with the idea of      Simple living and high moral thinking.

According to Census 2011, India has 104 million older people (60+ years), constituting 8.6% of the total population. Amongst the elderly (60+), females outnumber males.

Attitude is subjective individual interpretation of objective outside world.

Utilitarianism is a tradition of ethical philosophy that is associated with Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill.

Emotion is an instinctive state of mind. A positive emotion(confidence, happiness)creates a sense of pleasantness while a negative emotion(fear, anger) creates a sense of disturbance.

Ethics correspond to the Greek word “ethos” which means character,habit, way of behaviour, etc. Morals or Morality originated from the Latin word Mos which means “custom”.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech on the occasion of India’s 77th Independence Day.