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There is a very close relationship between these two. But, that does not mean that ethics is a branch of sociology.

Philosophy is a second order discipline. It is mainly concerned with the clarification of different concepts. This definition of philosophy is of course, a modem view. But in the past, the definition of philosophy was something different.

The subject matter of politics is to describe the structure and function of the government. Politics prescribes laws for the citizens in order to regulate their conducts so that public good can be realized.

Ethics as the science of morality has to give at the outset, an expository analysis of moral actions and distinguished from non-moral actions.

Ethical Hedonism may assume two forms, viz., Egoistic and Altruistic. According to Egoistic Hedonism, the pleasure of the individual is the moral standard. According to Altruistic Hedonism, the greatest happiness of the greatest number or general happiness is the moral standard. Egoistic Hedonism, again, may be of two types; such as; gross and refined.

This view is unpsychological in character. Pleasure is the result of the satisfaction of a desire which is directed to. an object.

The course on the philosophy of science makes me think about the science itself dialectically, what science is, how to understand it and what the attitudes I should have towards science in other words a scientific bent of mind.

Hinduism consists of a voluminous body of thought and philosophy arranged within a number of different schools and tendencies, developed over the course of centuries as scholars revisited or provided commentaries on existing literature.

Just as the Nyaya philosophy is devoted to the almost exclusive study of the sources of valid knowledge, vaisesika philosophy devotes itself to metaphysical reflections.

According to Nyaya, God is the creator, sustainer, and destroyer of the universe. He is the efficient, not the material cause of the universe. He directs the activities of living souls.

Tradition regards sage Gautama is the founder of Nyaya philosophy. the basic question involved in any theory of causation is: “Does the effect pre-exist in its material cause?” Those

According to Nyaya philosophy, the second source of valid knowledge is inference. Inference is the means to ‘anuma’ knowledge. It is that knowledge preceding which there is some other knowledge.

The sage Gotama is the founder of Nyaya school. He is also known as Gautama and as Aksapada. Nyaya means argumetation and suggests that the system is predominantly intellectual, analytic, logical and epistemological.

According  to Buddha, ‘ All the existing things have been originated due to some cense. All these things are non-eternal in every way. ‘Whatever appears to be eternal and permanent is also perishable.

The theory of no soul  also follows from the doctrines of dependent origination. There is no in visible permanent substance besides the flow of consciousness.

The doctrine of karma in Buddhist Philosophy is based on the doctrines, the present life of man is the result of his past life and the future depends upon the present.