Traditional Indian Virtue Ethics for Today: An East-West Dialogue

ISBN-13: 9783031479717 / Angielski

Sitansu S. Chakravarti

Spis treści

FOREWORD Michael Slote, Phil., U of Miami, USA

PREFACE Makarand Paranjape, English, JNU, India

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART I WORLD PHILOSOPHY

1. Indian Philosophy and World Philosophy

Michael Slote, Phil., U of Miami, USA

2. Questioning Buddhism on the Way to World Philosophy

Michael Slote, Phil., U of Miami, USA

PART II TRADITIONAL VIEWS REFORMULATED

3. Tagore’s Philosophy of Man: Reconciling Opposing Forces

Shefali Moitra, Retd., Phil., Jadavpur U, India

4. Virtue Ethics in Swami Vivekananda: A Novel Perspective on Vedanta

Abhishek Banerjee, Biological Sciences, Purdue U, USA

5. Sri Aurobindo’s Metaphysics of Morals in the Model of Virtue Ethics

Indrani Sanyal, Retd., Phil., Jadavpur U, India

PART III VIRTUE ETHICS FOR CURRENT APPLICATION

6. An Environmental Ethics for Today – Structured on the Indian Virtue Ethics Model

Sitansu S Chakravarti, New College, U of Toronto, Canada

7. Business Leadership and Virtue Ethics in the 21st Century: Framing Barton through

Tagore’s Lens

Ananda Chakravarti, KPMG International, Toronto, Canada

8. Ethical Message of the Mahabharata in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis

Sitansu S Chakravarti, New College, U of Toronto, Canada

9. Introducing Virtue Ethics in the Business Management Curriculum

Dennis Wittmer, Management, Daniels College of Business, U of Denver, USA

10. Kautilya’s Virtue Ethics-based Economics vs. Modern Economics

Balbir Singh Sihag, Emeritus Professor, Economics, UMass, Lowell, USA

PART IV INDIAN VIRTUE ETHICS FOR THEORY BUILDING TODAY

11. Why Virtue Ethics Comes Closest to Indian Moral Praxis

Amita Chatterjee, Emeritus Professor, Phil., Jadavpur U, India

12. Science and Virtue Ethics

Kumar Murty, Math & Phil., U of Toronto, Canada

13. Emotion Concepts for Virtue Theory: From Aesthetic to Epistemic and Moral

Lisa Widdison, Phil., U of Hawaii, USA

14. The Challenge to Being Virtuous: Solution Cues from the Mahabharata

Nirmalya Narayan Chakraborty, Phil., Rabindra Bharati U, India

EPILOGUE WITH IDEAS FROM THE MAHABHARATA

Amita Chatterjee, Emeritus Professor, Phil., Jadavpur U, India:

Critique of Ethics in the Mahabharata: A Philosophical Inquiry for Today

O autorze

Sitansu S. Chakravarti is President of the International Society for World Philosophy (ISWP). He has authored many books, including Hinduism – A Way of Life and Ethics in the Mahabharata – A Philosophical Inquiry for Today. His latest published work is Tagore–Wittgenstein Interface: The Poet’s Activism and Virtue Ethics’. He has taught at universities in North America and India.

Blurb

Working in the tradition of world philosophy, this book puts Western virtue ethics in conversation with traditional Indian philosophies. The book begins with a contribution from Michael Slote on ‘World Philosophy: The Importance of India,’ which is followed by contributions covering metaethical topics such as the relationship between Western virtue ethics and various Indian philosophical traditions, and applied topics such as environmental ethics, business ethics, ethics and science, and moral psychology. Contributors include scholars working in both North America and India.