Hinduism: Dialogue with Ethics | AQA A-Level Religious Studies (7062)
Hinduism: Dialogue with Ethics
- 60 questions
- 4 subtopics
- Component 2: Hinduism, one religion of five
- Component 2
Hinduism: how ethical studies and the tradition have shaped one another.
Part of Component 2, sat only by students who take Hinduism as their chosen religion.
Sample questions from Hinduism: Dialogue with Ethics
Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.
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Hindu Ethics beside Kant and Bentham
How does Bentham's principle of maximising pleasure compare with Hindu approaches to suffering and happiness?
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Both aim to reduce suffering, but Hinduism values spiritual liberation (moksha) over material happiness, whereas Bentham's utilitarianism focuses on worldly pleasure and pain. -
Hindu Ethics beside Kant and Bentham
Why might Hindu ethics be classified as teleological?
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Actions are evaluated by their karmic consequences and their contribution toward achieving moksha (liberation), making the ultimate goal central to moral assessment. -
Hindu Ethical Issues, Free Will and Evaluation
What considerations inform Hindu responses to genetic engineering?
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Hindus weigh potential benefits against concerns about interfering with karma and disrupting the natural order established by divine creation. -
Hindu Ethical Issues, Free Will and Evaluation
How might other ethical perspectives support Hindu ethics?
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They may recognise the value of ahimsa as a universal principle applicable to environmental and animal welfare issues, finding common ground with Hindu non-violence. -
Hindu Views on Human Life and Death
What did India's Supreme Court decide in Common Cause v Union of India in 2018?
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It recognised a right to die with dignity, allowing passive euthanasia and living wills that refuse life support, while active euthanasia remains illegal. -
Hindu Views on Human Life and Death
When does Indian law permit the death penalty?
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Only in the rarest of rare cases, a test set by the Supreme Court in Bachan Singh v State of Punjab in 1980, under which life imprisonment is the rule. -
Hindu Views on Animal Life and Death
How do Hindus differ over animal experiments for medicine?
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Some reject all such experiments as a breach of ahimsa, while others accept testing that saves human lives as the lesser harm, provided no alternative exists and suffering is kept to a minimum. -
Hindu Views on Animal Life and Death
How have Indian courts treated jallikattu, the bull-taming sport held at the harvest festival of Pongal?
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The Supreme Court banned it as cruelty in 2014, but in 2023 upheld a 2017 Tamil Nadu law that allowed it as part of the state's cultural heritage.
The 4 subtopics
One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.
| Subtopic | What it covers | Questions |
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| Hindu Ethics beside Kant and Bentham | Recall questions on the comparison of dharma and nishkama karma with Kantian duty, and of Hindu views of suffering with utilitarian pleasure. | 10 |
| Hindu Ethical Issues, Free Will and Evaluation | Recall questions on Hindu responses to life and death, animals, theft, lying, sexuality, genetic engineering, wealth and tolerance, on free will, karma and antahkarana, and on evaluating Hindu ethics. | 20 |
| Hindu Views on Human Life and Death | Hindu responses to the prescribed issues of human life and death, including euthanasia and prayopavesa, the Indian Supreme Court's rulings on withdrawing treatment, capital punishment and danda, and cloning, designer babies and sex selection. | 16 |
| Hindu Views on Animal Life and Death | Hindu responses to the prescribed issues of animal life and death, including intensive dairy farming and ahimsa milk, animal experiments and cloning, hunting and blood sports with the Bishnoi and jallikattu, and organ transplants. | 14 |
How the guide is worked
Answering a question from memory stores it far better than reading the answer again. The guide runs that as a fixed procedure on one subtopic at a time, about twenty minutes a session.
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Step 1 · Closed book
Cover the answers. Work through one subtopic and write down what you can. Leave blanks where you have nothing.
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Step 2 · Open book
Go back to the top. Read each printed answer and write it out in full, including the ones you had right.
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Step 3 · Closed book again
Same questions, same order, from memory. The gap between pass one and pass three is the session result.
Read the full method, the return schedule and the research behind it.
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