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Indian ethics : classical traditions and contemporary challenges. Volume 1

Print Book, English, ©2007
Ashgate, Aldershot, England, ©2007
volumes 432 pages ; 24 cm
9780754633013, 0754633012
1081071520
Thinking ethics, the West and India
Part A: Early Indian ethics
Vedas to the Gītā; dharma, rites to 'right'
Dharma, imperatives, and tradition: toward an Indian theory of moral action / J.N. Mohanty
Dharma and rationality / Bimal Krishna Matilal
The myth of the ethics of Puruṣārtha or humanity's life-goals / Daya Krishna
The fires of strangers: a Levinasian approach to Vedic ethics / Laurie L. Patton
Sāṃkhya-yoga ethics / Roy W. Perrett
Ethics of liberation in Patañjali's yoga / Ian Whicher
Karma's suffering: a Mīmāṃsā solution to the problem of evil / Purushottama Bilimoria
Dāna as a moral category / Maria Heim
Part B: Buddhist and Jaina approaches to ethical decision making
Purgation and virtue in Jainism: toward an ecological ethic / Christopher Key Chapple
Buddhist ethical theory / Padmasiri de Silva
Are there 'human rights' in Buddhism? / Damien Keown
Buddhism and democracy / Jay L. Garfield
Buddhist reductionism and the structure of Buddhist ethics / Mark Siderits
Animal ethics and ecology in classical India
reflections on a moral tradition / M.K. Sridhar, and Purushottama Bilimoria
Part C: Reflections on moral ideals and modernity; Gandhi and nonviolence
Hindu theory of tolerance / Bhikhu Parekh
Action oriented morality in Hinduism / Christopher Key Chapple
The ethical irrationality of the world: Weber and Hindu ethics / Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Social injustice, retribution and revenge: a normative analysis of the contemporary social scene / Rajendra Prasad
Gandhi, empire, and a culture of peace / Joseph Prabhu
Ethical skepticism in the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo / Stephen Phillips