Topic: Attitude: content, structure, function; its influence and relation with thought and behaviour; moral and political attitudes; social influence and persuasion.
7. Explain the factors that affect the morality of human action. What are the impediments to moral actions? (150 words)
Reference: Ethics by Lexicon publications.
Why the question:
The question is part of the static syllabus of General studies paper – 4.
Key Demand of the question:
A straightforward questions in which one has to wrote about the factors that make an action moral and the impediments to moral actions.
Directive:
Explain – Clarify the topic by giving a detailed account as to how and why it occurred, or what is the particular context. You must be defining key terms where ever appropriate, and substantiate with relevant associated facts.
Structure of the answer:
Introduction:
Begin by writing that morality of action is to judge the goodness or badness of any particular human act.
Body:
In the first part, in detail write about the three major factors – The objective/intention of the Human Act, The Circumstances contextualising the Human Act, The end result of performing a Human Act. Substantiate with examples.
In the next part, write about the impediments to Moral acts – Ignorance, Passion, Habits, Greed, Fear and Cultural Prejudices etc.
Conclusion:
Conclude with how we can overcome the above impediments.
