Question

Short note on indian philosophy in value and ethics

Answer 1

Ethics and religion are two different things. In fact, religion and philosophy are two different things too. The difference lies in the aims of the subjects. Philosophy, like science, seeks knowledge and a conceptual framework that best explains reality and our experience of it within the bounds of logic, language and accepted scientific norms. Religion seeks to know the nature of god and the ways to attain ‘self realization’ by ‘finding’ that divine and perhaps merging with it. It’s explanations are subject to its texts and ‘truths’ as revealed by a divine authority which are not subject to question. Broadly, one may say that the aims of philosophy and science are knowledge while that of religion are faith.