Indian Ethics (eBook, ePUB)

Classical Traditions and Contemporary Challenges: Volume I
Redaktion: Bilimoria, Purushottama; Sharma, Renuka; Prabhu, Joseph

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Indian ethics is one of the great traditions of moral thought in world philosophy whose insights have influenced thinkers in early Greece, Europe, Asia, and the New World. This is the first systematic study of the spectrum of moral reflections from India, engaging a critical cross-cultural perspective. The volume explores the scope and limits of Indian ethical thinking, reflecting on the interpretation and application of its teachings and practices in the contemporary context. Thirty-five chapters chart orthodox and heterodox debates, from early classical Hindu texts to Buddhist, Jaina, Yoga,and Gandhian ethics. The range of issues include: life-values and virtues, karma and dharma, evil and suffering, renunciation and enlightenment; and extends to questions of human rights and justice, ecology and animal ethics, gender and bioethical concerns. Ramifications for rethinking ethics in a postmodern and global era are also explored. Indian Ethics offers an invaluable resource for researchers in philosophy, religion, human sciences and cultural studies, and to those interested in South Asian responses to moral dilemmas in the postcolonial era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351928069
• Artikelnr.: 47956204

Autorenporträt

Purushottama Bilimoria is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Studies at Deakin University, Visiting Professor SUNY, Stony Brook, and Columbia University New York, an Editor-in-Chief of Sophia, and Senior Fellow at University of Melbourne, Australia. Joseph Prabhu is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles, USA, and current President-Elect of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy. Renuka Sharma is formerly of the University of Melbourne, Australia and was a medical and psychoanalytic practitioner, feminist philosopher, and social activist in Australia and India.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; General introduction: Thinking ethics
the West and India. Introduction to Part A Early Indian Ethics - Vedas to the Gita; dharma
rites to 'Right': Dharma
imperatives
and tradition: toward an Indian theory of moral action
J.N. Mohanty; Dharma and rationality
Bimal Krishna Matilal; The myth of the ethics of Purusartha or humanity's life-goals
Daya Krishna; The fires of strangers: a Levinasian approach to Vedic ethics
Laurie L. Patton; Samkhya-Yoga ethics
Roy W. Perrett; Ethics of liberation in Patanjali's yoga
Ian Whicher; Karma's suffering: a Mimamsa solution to the problem of evil
Purushottama Bilimoria; Dana as a moral category
Maria Heim. Introduction to Part B: Buddhist and Jain Approaches to Ethical Decision Making: Purgation and virtue in Jainism: toward an ecological ethic
Christopher Key Chapple; Buddhist ethical theory
Padmasiri de Silva; Are there 'human rights' in Buddhism?
Damien Keown; Buddhism and democracy
Jay L. Garfield; Buddhist reductionism and the structure of Buddhist ethics
Mark Siderits; Animal ethics and ecology in classical India - reflections on a moral tradition
M.K. Sridhar and Purushottama Bilimoria. Introduction to Part C: Reflections on Moral Ideals and Modernity; Ghandi and Nonviolence: Hindu theory of tolerance
Bhikhu Parekh; Action oriented morality in Hinduism
Christopher Key Chapple; The ethical irrationality of the world: Weber and Hindu ethics
Pratap Bhanu Mehta; Social injustice
retribution and revenge: a normative analysis of the contemporary social scene
Rajendra Prasad; Gandhi
empire and a culture of peace
Joseph Prabhu; Ethical skepticism in the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo
Stephen Philips. Index.