Mains 2024 • GS-IV • Q.3

Mains • GS-IV • 2024 • Q.3

Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude

(a) Learn everything that is good from others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others. - Swami Vivekananda (b) Faith is of no avail in the absence of strength. Faith and strength, both are essential to accomplish any great work. - Sardar Patel (c) In law, a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics, he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. - Immanuel Kant

2024 Mains • GS-IV

Q.2 Q.4

Syllabus Connection

Contributions of moral thinkers and philosophers from India and world. (GS-IV)

NCERT Connection

Ch.4: Introducing Western Sociologists

Sociology • Class 11 • Understanding Society

Ch.5: Indian Sociologists

Sociology • Class 11 • Understanding Society

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