The Routledge Companion to Indian Ethics
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This companion volume focuses on the application and practical ramifications of Indian ethics. Here Indian dharma ethics is moved from its preeminent religious origins and classical metaethical proclivity to, what Kant would call, practical reason - or in Aristotle's poignant terms, hikos and phron is -and in more modern parlance normative ethics. Our study examines a wide range of social and normative challenges facing people in such diverse areas as women's rights, infant ethics, politics, law, justice, bioethics and ecology. As a contemporary volume, it builds linkages between existing…mehr

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This companion volume focuses on the application and practical ramifications of Indian ethics. Here Indian dharma ethics is moved from its preeminent religious origins and classical metaethical proclivity to, what Kant would call, practical reason - or in Aristotle's poignant terms, hikos and phron is -and in more modern parlance normative ethics. Our study examines a wide range of social and normative challenges facing people in such diverse areas as women's rights, infant ethics, politics, law, justice, bioethics and ecology. As a contemporary volume, it builds linkages between existing theories and emerging moral issues, problems and questions in today's India in the global arena. The volume brings together contributions from some 40 philosophers and contemporary thinkers on practical ethics, exploring both the scope and boundaries or limits of ethics as applied to everyday and real-life concerns and socio-economic challenges facing India in the context of a troubled globalizing world. As such, this collection draws on multiple forms of writing and research, including narrative ethics, interviews, critical case studies and textual analyses.

The book will be of interest to scholars, researchers and students of Indian philosophy, Indian ethics, women and infant issues, social justice, environmental ethics, bioethics, animal ethics and cross-cultural responses to dominant Western moral thought. It will also be useful to researchers working on the intersection of Gandhi, sustainability, ecology, theology, feminism, comparative philosophy and dharma studies.
Autorenporträt
Purushottama Bilimoria works in the areas of Indian and cross-cultural philosophy, continental philosophy, philosophy of religion, critical thinking and diaspora studies. He is a Distinguished Professor of Law and International Philosophy at O. P. Jindal Global University, and a Visiting Professor at Ashoka University, Delhi-NCR, India. A Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne, he is also Permanent Fellow of the Oxford Center for Hindu Studies; he was named Lead Scientist (in 2021-2022) of the Purushottama Centre for Study of Indian Philosophy and Culture at Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, in Moscow; Co-founder of Australasian Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy and also serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Sophia and Associate Editor Journal of Dharma Studies. They have been a recipient of several awards: Distinguished Fulbright-Nehru Excellence in Teaching and Research Fellowship; Rockefeller Foundation, Templeton Foundation, Ford Foundation, Australia Research Council. His recent publications include Testimony in Indian Philosophy (revised, 2018); History of Indian Philosophy (with Amy Rayner, 2018); Religion and Sustainability (edited with Rita D. Sherma, 2021); Contemplative Studies and Hinduism (edited with Rita D. Sherma, 2021); Contemplative Studies and Jainism (co-edited with R. Sherma and C. Bohenac, 2023); The Routledge Companion to Indian Ethics: Women, Justice, Bioethics and Ecology (with Amy Rayner 2023); Engaging Philosophies of Religion; Thinking Across Boundaries (with Gereon Kopf, 2023); Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion (with Andrew Irvine, 2009, 2024); and under 200 articles in professional journals. A scholastic institution in its own right, he continues to teach and be a mentor at Cal State University (San Francisco and Long Beach, California) and periodically at the University of California, University of San Francisco, Ashoka University, and the University of Melbourne. Amy Rayner is a graduate of the University of Melbourne (philosophy). Amy has worked alongside Purushottama Bilimoria for 15 years, assisting with editing, research and writing. She was the editorial secretary of Sophia and is an editorial assistant for Sophia Studies in Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures. She served as Assistant Editor and Project Secretary for publications including Globalization, Transnationalism, Gender and Ecological Engagements (2015); Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion (2009); and Routledge's acclaimed History of Indian Philosophy (2018). Her experience in Buddhism has ranged from an interest in philosophy and meditation to engagement with social change, education and well-being. She qualified as a Buddhist Chaplain and secular spiritual carer in Canberra, Australia, in 2011 and worked at a Buddhist school and orphanage for children living with HIV in Bihar, India. Inspired by the authors of this book, in 2022, Amy trained and now teaches secular ethics at her local primary school in regional Australia.