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Topic Moral Philosophy
Asked 3 times in ESE, peaking in 2025.
Key insights
- Most tested in ESE — 3 of 3 PYQs
- Most asked in 2025
- Recurs across 1 years (2025–2025)
Across exams
ESE · 3How the concept evolved
Rising — more than half its appearances (3 of 3) are since 2016.
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Sample questions
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ESE2025
Moral statements are merely used to express emotions and to try to influence other people's behaviour but they are not supportable by valid moral reasons. This is termed as
- A Nihilism
- B Compatibilism
- C Emotivism
- D Eudaimonia
Answer key not yet available (pending official release)
Engineering › Engineering Mathematics & General
ESE2025
What is Teleological Approach?
- A Developing an individual personnel characteristics
- B We can know what is good only when we have fully understood the context
- C Judging whether an action is right, fair and honest
- D Placing posters about ethics throughout the organization
Answer key not yet available (pending official release)
Engineering › Engineering Mathematics & General
ESE2025
A balance between good and bad consequences of an action, taking into account the consequences for everyone affected is known as
- A Virtue ethics
- B Utilitarianism
- C Duty ethics
- D Right ethics
Answer key not yet available (pending official release)
Engineering › Engineering Mathematics & General
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