Routledge Companion to Indian Ethics

<p>This companion volume focuses on the application and practical ramifications of Indian ethics. Here Indian <i>dharma ethics </i>is moved from its preeminent religious origins and classical metaethical proclivity to what Kant would call <i>practical reason </i>– or in Aristotle’s poignant terms <i>?hikos </i>and <i>phron?is </i>–and in more modern parlance <i>normative ethics</i>. 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.</p><p>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 <i>dharma </i>studies.</p>