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• Utilitarianism is an ethical theory that judges actions by their consequences.
• It seeks to maximize overall happiness or well-being.
• Its core principle is the greatest good for the greatest number.
• Major thinkers associated with utilitarianism include Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill.

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• A person who reads the Kalima of Islam verbally and calls himself Muslim but disbelieves it heartily is called a “Hypocrite” (Munafiq).
• Munafiq is a person who in public and in the community shows that he is a Muslim but rejects Islam 
  
• In Islam, the munafiq or false Muslims or false believers.
• The hypocrisy itself is called nifāq (نفاق).

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• In the 20th century, normative ethics became more complex as it focused not only on rightness and wrongness but also on different kinds of moral values.
• Normative ethics studies the principles and values that guide moral behavior.
• It helps determine what people ought to do based on ethical values.

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• Conventional morality deals with the level of customs and social norms and is a branch of Ethics.
• It refers to moral standards based on society's accepted rules and traditions.
• Individuals follow these norms to gain social approval and maintain order.

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• It is the special business of ethics to test our intuitions for consistency and compare them critically with those of others.
• Ethics examines whether our moral judgments are logical, fair, and consistent.
• It helps improve moral reasoning through critical analysis.

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• Direct or intuitive judgment plays a far larger role in Ethics than in the physical sciences.
• Ethics is a normative science that evaluates what is morally right and wrong.
• It relies on moral reasoning, values, and intuitive judgment rather than only observation.

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• Ethics deals with the standards by which we judge human actions to be right or wrong.
• It is the branch of philosophy concerned with moral values and principles.
• Ethics helps individuals distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable behavior.

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• Gautam Budha was born in Lumbini, Nepal in 623 BC (563 BC).
• Language of discourse/lectures of Budhha was: Pali 
• He was the founder of Buddhism.

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• The most nationally holistic-minded people today admit that we have some duties to all humanity.
• Ethics teaches that every individual has responsibilities not only to their nation but also to humanity as a whole.
• These duties promote peace, justice, and human welfare.

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