Montag, 05.11.2007 Bilimoria [u.a.]: Indian ethics
Bilimoria, Puruṣottama [u.a.] (Hrsg.): Indian ethics : classical traditions and contemporary challenges / ed. by Purushottama Bilimoria, Joseph Prabhu and Renuka Sharma. - Vol. 1. - Aldershot : Ashgate, 2007. - X, 431 S.ISBN 0-7546-3301-2 / 978-0-7546-3301-3 (Vol. 1)£ 55,00Beschreibung
Bilimoria, Puruṣottama [u.a.] (Hrsg.): Indian ethics : classical traditions and contemporary challenges / ed. by Purushottama Bilimoria, Joseph Prabhu and Renuka Sharma. - Vol. 1. - Aldershot : Ashgate, 2007. - X, 431 S.ISBN 0-7546-3301-2 / 978-0-7546-3301-3 (Vol. 1)£ 55,00Beschreibung
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 such systematic study of the spectrum of moral reflections from India, engaging a critical cross-cultural perspective and attending to modern secular sensibilities. The volume explores the scope and limits of Indian ethical thinking, reflecting on the interpretation and application of its teachings and practices in the comparative and contemporary contexts. The chapters chart orthodox and heterodox debates, from early classical Hindu texts to Buddhist, Jaina, Yoga, and Gandhian ethics. The range of issues includes: 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, nonviolence and democracy. Ramifications for rethinking ethics in a postmodern and global era are also explored. Indian Ethics offers an invaluable resource for students of philosophy, religion, human sciences and cultural studies, and to those interested in South Asian responses to moral dilemmas in the postcolonial era. [Verlagsinformation]Inhalt
Preface. vii General introduction: Thinking ethics, the West and India.
1INTRODUCTION TO PART A: EARLY INDIAN ETHICS – VEDAS TO THE GITA; DHARMA, RITES TO 'RIGHT'. 33
1. J.N. Mohanty: Dharma, imperatives, and tradition: toward an Indian theory of moral action. 57
2. Bimal Krishna Matilal: Dharma and rationality. 79
3. Daya Krishna: The myth of the ethics of Puruṣārtha or humanity's life-goals. 103
4. Laurie L. Patton: The fires of strangers: a Levinasian approach to Vedic ethics. 117
5. Roy W. Perrett: Sāṃkhya-Yoga ethics. 149
6. Ian Whicher: Ethics of liberation in Patañjali's Yoga. 161
7. Purushottama Bilimoria: Karma's suffering: a Mīmāṃsā solution to the problem of evil. 171
8. Maria Heim: Dāna as a moral category. 191
INTRODUCTION TO PART B: BUDDHIST AND JAIN APPROACHES TO ETHICAL DECISION MAKING. 211
9. Christopher Key Chapple: Purgation and virtue in Jainism: toward an ecological ethic. 217
10. Padmasiri de Silva: Buddhist ethical theory. 229
11. Damien Keown: Are there 'human rights' in Buddhism? 247
12. Jay L. Garfield: Buddhism and democracy. 269
13. Mark Siderits: Buddhist reductionism and the structure of Buddhist ethics. 283
14. M.K. Sridhar and Purushottama Bilimoria: Animal ethics and ecology in classical India – reflections on a moral tradition. 297
INTRODUCTION TO PART C: REFLECTIONS ON MORAL IDEALS AND MODERNITY. 329
15. Bhikhu Parekh: Ghandi and Nonviolence: Hindu theory of tolerance. 337
16. Christopher Key Chapple: Action oriented morality in Hinduism. 351
17. Pratap Bhanu Mehta: The ethical irrationality of the world: Weber and Hindu ethics. 363
18. Rajendra Prasad: Social injustice, retribution and revenge: a normative analysis of the contemporary social scene. 377
19. Joseph Prabhu: Gandhi, empire and a culture of peace. 395
20. Stephen Philips: Ethical skepticism in the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo. 411
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. Faculty profile, Deakin University
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. Faculty profile.
RENUKA SHARMA (1958-2002) is formerly of the University of Melbourne, Australia and was a medical and psychoanalytic practitioner, feminist philosopher, and social activist in Australia and India. Obituary. Quellen: Ashgate; Amazon (UK); Blackwell Online.Schlagwörter: Ethik; Sozialethik; Religion; Philosophie
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