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Reasonableness

1153: (1991) 3 SCC 91: (1990) Supp 3 SCR 20. Reasonableness, does not exclude notions of morality and ethics. The considerations of morality and ethics may have a bearing on the reasonableness of the law in question,

Secularism

Union of India, (2002) 7 SCC 368. Secularism, in the realm of Philosophy, is a system of utilitarian ethics, seeking to maximise human happiness or welfare quite independently of what may be either religious or the occult,

Right

SC 68: (1977) 4 SCC 608: (1978) 2 SCR 1. That which is proper under law, morality, or ethics; something that is due to a person by just claim, legal guarantee, or moral principle, Black's Law Dictionary,

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Religion

of India, (2000) 6 SCC 224. Religion, is a specific system of belief, worship, conduct involving code of ethics and philosophy, Webster's American Dictionary, p. 1228. Religion, the Constitution of India guarantees every person fundamental right to

Hindu

the hard aspirate, and called the Hindus 'Indoi'. ('Hindulsm' by Monler Williams, p.1.)'. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. VI, has described 'Hinduism' as the title applied to that form of religion which prevails among the

Equity

their strict letter, but rather in their reasonable and benignant spirit. Aristotle, in his discussion concerning Moral Equity, Ethics Eud., b.v., c. x, calls it the correction of mere law, where mere law fails on account of

Dharma

1765. The word 'dharma' has a very wide meaning. One meaning of it is the 'moral values or ethics' on which the life is naturally regulated. Dharma or righteousness is elemental and fundamental in all nations, periods

Politics

The science of government that part of ethics which has to do with the regulation and government of a nation or state the preservation of its

Nonmoral

Neither moral nor immoral having no connection with morals not within the sphere of morals or ethics not ethical as imagination is of its nature nonmoral infants are nonmoral

Eudemonism

That system of ethics which defines and enforces moral obligation by its relation to happiness or personal well being

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