Traditional Indian Virtue Ethics for Today

An East-West Dialogue

AvSitansu S. Chakravarti,Amita Chatterjee

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-05-23
Mått:148 x 210 x 24 mm
Vikt:558 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in Comparative East-West Philosophy
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031479717

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Mer om författaren

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.

Innehållsförteckning

1: Introduction.- PART I: World Philosophy.- 2: Indian Philosophy and World Philosophy.- 3: Questioning Buddhism on the Way to World Philosophy.- PART II: Traditional Views reformulated.- 4: Tagore’s Philosophy of Man: Reconciling Opposing Forces.- 5: Virtue Ethics in Swami Vivekananda: A Novel Perspective on Vedanta.- .6: Sri Aurobindo’s Metaphysics of Morals in the Model of Virtue Ethics.- PART III: Virtue Ethics for Current Application.- 7: An Environmental Ethics for Today – Structured on the Indian Virtue Ethics Model.- 8: Business Leadership and Virtue Ethics in the 21st Century: Framing Barton through Tagore’s Lens.- 9: Ethical Message of the Mahabharata in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis.- 10: Introducing Virtue Ethics in the Business Management Curriculum.- 11: Kautilya’s Virtue Ethics-based Economics vs. Modern Economics.- PART IV: Indian Virtue Ethics for Theory Building Today.- 12: Why Virtue Ethics Comes Closest to Indian Moral Praxis.- 13: Scienceand Virtue Ethics.- 14: Emotion Concepts for Virtue Theory: From Aesthetic to Epistemic and Moral.- 15: The Challenge to Being Virtuous: Solution Cues from the Mahabharata.- 16:Epilogue.