The Routledge Companion to Indian Ethics

ISBN-13: 9781032638461 / Twarda / 2024 / 560 str.

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This companion volume focuses on the application and practical ramifications of Indian ethics. It reports on contemporary wide-ranging social and communal problems facing people in the areas of politics, gender, bioethics and ecology.

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Preface  Foreword by Shyam Ranganathan Introduction Prologue: India in the World: The Historical Context for Inter-Cultural Ethicality  Part 1: Health, Ethics and Public Welfar 1. Public Health, Care and Bioethics in Modern India 2. COVID19: Lessons in Ethics for Social Assets 3. Biotechnology and Ethics in India 4. Moral Responsibility and Pharmaceutical Companies 5.  Mental Illness and Mental Health Justice 6. Embryo Ethics from an Ancient Hindu Perspective 7.  Abortion, Reproductive Rights, and the Unborn – between tradition and modernity 8.  Female Infanticide: Ethics of Death in the Shadow of Motherhood and Childbirth in India 9.  The Theatre of Surrogacy:  Ethics of Surrogacy in India 10. Dying with Dignity:  Sallekhanā vis-à-vis Euthanasia - normative, bioethical and legal ramifications           

Purushottama Bilimoria

 

Part 2: Ecology, Sustainability and Spirituality

           

11.  11. Ethics of Genetic Modification: Commerce without Morality and Science without Humanity - A Gandhian Response

Gunjan Pradhan Sinha

 

12.  12. Gandhian Ethics and Perceptions of Science, Technology, and Sustainability         

Bidisha Mallik

 

13.  13.Climate Change and Development Ethics after Amartya Sen          

Lindsay Dawson

 

14.  14. WATER: Rites, Rights, and Ecological Justice in India       

Purushottama Bilimoria and Melukote K. Sridhar

 

15. 15. Protection of the Indian Coastal Ecosystem through Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) Notifications: An Analysis

        M Sakthivel and Nagma Khan

 

16.  16. Sustaining Dharma, Sustainable Ecology: Dharma as Rural Environmental Ethics

Pankaj Jain

 

17. 17. On Understanding the Tribes Person’s World-view

Sujata Miri

 

18.  18. Yoga as Therapeutic Animal Ethics.

Kenneth Valpey

 

19.  19. Animal Justice and Moral Mendacity

Purushottama Bilimoria

 

20. 20. You Are What You Eat: Animal and Dietary Ethics in the Early Indian Traditions

Nishant Upadhyay

 

21. 21. Nature and Humans in the 21st Century: Some Reflections 

Manoranjan Mohanty

 

Part 3: Engaged Ethics and Eco Feminism           

 

22. 22, Dharma Morality as Virtue Ethics     

Nicholas F. Gier

 

23. 23, Engaged Jainism: Jaina Ethics in a Living Universe 

Christopher Key Chapple

 

24.  24.Buddhist Spirituality and Social Activism in the 20-21st Centuries 

Sallie B. King

 

25. 25. Ecofeminism from a Buddhist Critical Perspective  

Rita M. Gross

 

26.  26. Caregiver vs. Citizen? Reflections on Ecofeminism from Kerala State, India

Devika J

 

27.  27. Humanizing the Feminine Earth: An ecofeminist perspective on the corporeal nature

       Meera Baindur

 

28.  28. Ecofeminism and Hindu Tantra

Rita Sherma

 

Part 4: Ethics and Politics: Contexts and Applications

           

29.  29. Ethics, Politics in Tagore, Coetzee and Certain Scenes of Teaching

Gayatri Chakravorti Spivak

 

30.  30. Towards an Ethics of Location          

Morny Joy

 

31.  31. The Question of Universalist Justice –  Transnational Encounters in Feminism

Sara Ahmed

 

32.  32. Activating the Imagination: Harmony and Justice in Tagore’s Thought      

Esha Niyogi De

 

33.  33. Violence and Humanity: Or, Vulnerability as Political Subjectivity

Anupama Rao

 

34.  34. From Victim to Survivor: Then and Now Interviews with Flavia Agnes

Flavia Agnes and Amy Rayner

 

35. 35.  Marking Time: the Gendered Present and the Nuclear Future

Kumkum Sangari

 

36. 36. The Gandhian Touch: Morals in Politics

Devaki Jain

 

37.  37. Approaching Gandhian Metaethics: Some methodological issues    

Samiksha Goyal

 

38.  38. Globalization, Gandhi and Free Trade          

Sanjay Lal

 

Part 5: Women and the Limits of Traditional Ethics       

 

39.  39. Women and Ethics in Hindu Thought and Practice  

Mandakranta Bose

 

40. 40. Women and Values in Traditional India: A Feminist Probe

Anindita Niyogi Balslev

 

41.  41. Normalisation of Dowry        

Praveena Kodoth

 

42.  42. The Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA): Gandhian Ethics and Feminist Ethics in Action           

Margaret A. McLaren

 

43.  42. The Emergent Moral Agent: A Feminism-Buddhism Exchange      

Vrinda Dalmiya

 

44.  43. Gandhian Ethics and Feminist Perspectives: In a Somewhat Different Voice         

Bindu Puri

 

45.  44. Is Controlled Śakti to the Bharatanāṭyam Practitioner as Uncontrolled Śakti is to the Devadāsī?

Sandra Sattler

 

O autorze

Purushottama Bilimoria works in the areas of Indian & Cross-Cultural philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Critical Thinking, and Diaspora Studies. A Principal Fellow at University of Melbourne, he is Permanent Fellow of the Oxford Center for Hindu Studies; he was named as Lead Scientist (in 2021-2) of Purushottama Centre for Study of Indian Philosophy and Culture at Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, in Moscow; Co-founder of Australasian Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, also serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Sophia and Assoc. Editor Journal of Dharma Studies. His recent publications include Testimony in Indian Philosophy (revised, 2018); History of Indian Philosophy (with Amy Rayner, 2018), Religion and Sustainability (edited with Rita D. Sherma, 2021), Contemplative Studies and Hinduism (edited with Rita D. Sherma, 2021); Contemplative Studies and Jainism (co-edited with R. Sherma and C. Bohenac, 2023), The Routledge Companion to Indian Ethics: Women, Justice, Bioethics and Ecology (with Amy Rayner 2023); Engaging Philosophies of Religion; Thinking Across Boundaries (with Gereon Kopf, 2023), Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion (with Andrew Irvine, 2009; 2024, ) and under 200 articles in professional journals. A scholastic institution in own right, he continues to teach and be a mentor at Cal State University (San Francisco and Long Beach, California), and periodically at University of California and the University of Melbourne.

 

Amy Rayner is a graduate of the University of Melbourne (Philosophy). Amy has worked alongside Purushottama Bilimoria for 15 years, assisting with editing, research and writing. She was editorial secretary of Sophia and is an editorial assistant for Sophia Studies in Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures. She served as Assistant Editor and Project Secretary for publications including Globalization, Transnationalism, Gender and Ecological Engagements (2015), Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion (2009) and Routledge’s acclaimed History of Indian Philosophy (2018). Her experience in Buddhism has ranged from an interest in philosophy and mediation to engagement with social change, education and wellbeing.  She qualified as a Buddhist Chaplain and secular spiritual carer in Canberra Australia in 2011, and worked at a Buddhist school and orphanage for children living with HIV in Bihar, India. Inspired by the authors of this book, in 2022 Amy trained and now teaches secular ethics at her local primary school in regional Australia.