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According to this view some ethical terms are verbally indefinable. Even if right can be defined in terms of say as productive of the most good, at least good in its turn cannot be defined.

According to this view, ethical sentences can be translated into non-ethnical sentences, without changing the meaning- just as ‘yard’ can be replaced by ‘three feet’. Let us examine the different theories.

The capital punishment is the severest type of punishment because nothing can be more painful, crueler to an individual than being deprived of the very life and existence. Of course there are many ways of putting men to death, some of which are never rackingly and excruciatingly painful while others may be less painful or […]

In our daily life most of the statements we make are factual. For example: ‘Water quenches thirst’, ‘I have a headache’, ‘and God exists ‘and so on. These statements are reports of some kind of fact. ‘Atomic war destroys the world’ it is an empirical fact.

According to this theory, punishment is an act of injustice. Punishment is an end in itself, not a means to any end beyond itself. The primary aim of punishment is retribution. The aim of punishment is to defend the supremacy and authority of the moral law and to do justice to a criminal.

According to this theory, the aim of punishment is to educate or reform the offender himself. Punishment is inflicted on a criminal in order to reform or educate him. This theory is commonly accepted at the present time, because it is in harmony with the humanitarian sentiments of the age.

According to this theory the aim of punishment is to prevent or deter others from committing similar offences. A criminal is punished to be made an example of to prevent others from committing the same crime.

The word ‘Perfection’ has being rooted in the Greek word ‘eudaemonia’. The Greeks interpreted the word as something which is very nearer to what we call happiness.

Hegel means it by saying that we should constitute our personality of our individuality. We should realise our rational self by transferring our sentiment self.

In the light of the exposition of perfectionism, we are to compare it with other theories. Along with hedonism, perfectionism holds that sentence is a necessary aspect of human nature. It continues the contents of a moral life.

Hegel is an advocate of ethics of self-realization. He interprets the maxim in the following way.

According to Kant, reason has the supreme place in his man constitution. It is reason which builds the conception of the world out of the materials supplied through senses and it is reason which supplies us with the moral which is absolutely binding on us and should be the regular or of our moral conduct.

The founder of the Cynic school, Antistheness studies in a school called cynosarges.

Kant hold that the moral life does not have any place for feeling, emotion or sentence. To work under the control of desire is hedonism. In it reason is merely means and such a hedonism is immoral.

In the field of ethics, reason can not explain either the basis of morality or its postulates. Freedom of will is a fundamental postulate of ethics. In all the means volition is controlled by external nature then morality does not have any meaning. “Thou oughtst, therefore, thou canst.” This is what Kant’s words implied.

Before going on to an account of the importance of Kantian principles in moral life, it would be better to take a look at rigorism and other defects in Kant’s ethics. The major defects are as follows:-