18. Medieval Ethics Personalities and their ethical ideas.

Question 1

1.Basavanna (“Roots of social life are embedded not in the cream but in the scum of society “.

Answer 1

1. Laid down democratic values.
2. Morally wrong cannot be politically right.
3. Dignity of manual labour
4. Humanity not man is the measure of all things.

Question 2

2.Kabir (“Plunge into the truth , find out who the teacher is “)

Answer 2

1. Dissent as a political and ethical value.
2. Laid the foundation for secular ethics.
3. Art as representative of truth and social desires.

Question 3

3.Nanak (“He who regards all men as equal is religious “)

Answer 3

1. Enlightened Materialism.
2. Communitarian Ethics
3. Value of Labour.
4. Universal Brotherhood

Question 4

4.Rumi (“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love “)

Answer 4

1. Ethics as a matter of heart.
2. All ethical values should spring from live,
3. Mutual understanding as foundations of all relations .

Question 5

5.Al Farabi (“The perfect human being is one who has achieved both theoretical and practical moral virtue “)

Answer 5

1. Merits of democracy.
2. Reasonable arrangement of human relations in a virtuous city.
3. Concept of Happiness

Question 6

Ibn Sinna (“ Absence of understanding does not warrant absence of existence”

Answer 6

1. Moral imagination.

2. Difference between essence and existence.

Question 7

Ibn Rushd (“Two truth cannot contradict each other “)

Answer 7

1. Founding father of secular ethics.
2. There can be multiple truth.
3. Existence precedes essence.

Question 8

Ibn Khaldun (“People are largely ignorant of interests of the human species “)

Answer 8

1. Facts and Values are interrelated.
2. Made a case for free economy and free labour.
3. Equality in economic conditions.

Question 9

Thomas Aquinas (“The things we love tell us what we are “)

Answer 9

1. Reason as alternative way of finding truth beside faith.
2. Universalized intelligence.
3. Ethics should belong to natural laws.