QUESTION 5(a)
GS4
10 marks
What do you understand by the term 'voice of conscience'? How do you prepare yourself to heed to the voice of conscience?
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7 min
150 words
What the examiner wants
Explain the voice of conscience and how one trains oneself to listen to it.
What; HowAnswer exactly what the question asks.
Demand-wise check
- 1Meaning: inner moral sense judging right and wrong, beyond law and fear≈35 words
- 2Preparing: self-reflection, silence and meditation, reading ethics, role models, reducing greed and fear, keeping a moral diary≈35 words
- 3Check: conscience can be distorted; test it with reason and constitutional values≈35 words
Open in about 20 words and close in about 20.
Answer plan
DefinitionSourcesPreparation methodsCautionConclusion
Where marks usually go
- Generic advice without concrete practices
- Treating conscience as infallible
Draw this
- Flow: situation → inner voice → reason check → action
Value addition
- ThinkerKant: act only on that maxim you could will to become a universal law, a ready test for what conscience demands.Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, 1785
- ThinkerKant called conscience the inner court of a person.Immanuel Kant
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- Aditya Pathak · Page 25 ↗Reviewed PYQ reference
- Bhoomika Jain · Page 25 ↗Reviewed PYQ reference
- Garv Garg · Page 25 ↗Reviewed PYQ reference
- G Sanjana · AIR 55 · Page 3 ↗Same syllabus reference
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