ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the representative Hindu account of moral standing, which is what we converge on as we disagree about moral standing—using Hindu resources to model the debate. An overview of prominent options from the European and Indian tradition point to two extremes. According to one, moral standing is determined intrinsically by what has standing. The opposite view is that moral standing is determined by extrinsic factors. The debate on moral standing converges on the objective, disjunctive concept of unconservativism or self-governance , which are essential traits of the Lord, according to Yoga. Three possible categories of standing follow from these considerations: moral patients, objects of intrinsic worth, and people. The concept of moral standing entails popular Hindu views about personhood, standing after death, the standing of celestial objects and the gods.
