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Mission Mains 2021: GS 4 Ethics Discussion

A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks he becomes.” – M.K. Gandhi

The above quote hints towards the interrelation between man's existence and his essence.

The essence of a human is prior to his existence and this essence is moulded by our thought.The law of attraction holds that what we think is what we attract which in turn is an outward manifestation of ourselves

Feminist such as semoine de Beauvoir held that one is not born a women , one becomes a woman,which means that being a woman is merely a state of mind, gender and sex are not the same , one is our existence and other our thought

for someone like Hannah arendt action and thought are aligned, when action and thought part ways thought becomes meaningless and action turns brutal.

therefore what we act is merely an outward practice of our thought,there is no dichotomy between the two.

Gandhiji rightly held that one cannot hope for a rose by planting babool seed. Therefore what we think, we become

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@upsc2020 thanks for the review, i am trying to write 10 marker within 7 minutes , I wrote whatever came to my mind in the shortest time.
now in the hindsight, I think context could have been better, would give half a minute thought from now on  before writing


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