ABSTRACT
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, ēhikos and phronēis –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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|124 pages
Health, Ethics and Public Welfare
chapter 8|14 pages
Female Infanticide
chapter 10|17 pages
Dying with Dignity
part II|122 pages
Ecology, Sustainability and Spirituality
chapter 11|9 pages
Ethics of Genetic Modification
chapter 15|12 pages
Protection of the Indian Coastal Ecosystem through Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) Notifications *
part III|79 pages
Engaged Ethics and Ecofeminism
chapter 27|15 pages
Humanizing the Feminine Earth
part IV|100 pages
Ethics and Politics: Contexts and Applications
part V|66 pages
Women and the Limits of Traditional Ethics