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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.

Hosszú leírás:

This companion volume focuses on the application and practical ramifications of Indian ethics. Here Indian dharma ethics is moved from its preeminent religious origins and classical metaethical proclivity to, what Kant would call, practical reason ? or in Aristotle?s poignant terms, ?hikos and phron?is ?and in more modern parlance normative ethics. Our study examines a wide range of social and normative challenges facing people in such diverse areas as women?s rights, infant ethics, politics, law, justice, bioethics and ecology. As a contemporary volume, it builds linkages between existing theories and emerging moral issues, problems and questions in today?s India in the global arena. The volume brings together contributions from some 40 philosophers and contemporary thinkers on practical ethics, exploring both the scope and boundaries or limits of ethics as applied to everyday and real-life concerns and socio-economic challenges facing India in the context of a troubled globalizing world. As such, this collection draws on multiple forms of writing and research, including narrative ethics, interviews, critical case studies and textual analyses.

The book will be of interest to scholars, researchers and students of Indian philosophy, Indian ethics, women and infant issues, social justice, environmental ethics, bioethics, animal ethics and cross-cultural responses to dominant Western moral thought. It will also be useful to researchers working on the intersection of Gandhi, sustainability, ecology, theology, feminism, comparative philosophy and dharma studies.

Tartalomjegyzék:

List of Contributors xiv

Preface xxiv

Foreword xxviii

Shyam RanganathanIntroduction

1

Prologue: India in the World: The Historical Context for Intercultural Ethicality 24

1 Public Health, Care and Bioethics in Modern India 37

Purushottama Bilimoria2

COVID-19: Lessons in Ethics for Social Assets 54

3 Biotechnology and Ethics in India 63

4 Moral Responsibility and Pharmaceutical Companies 75

Gauri Seth (Verma)

5 Mental Illness and Mental Health Justice 86

6 Embryo Ethics: Traditional Hindu Perspective 99

7 Abortion, Reproductive Rights and the Unborn: Between Tradition and Modernity 108

8 Female Infanticide: Ethics of Death in the Shadow of Motherhood and Childbirth in India 121

9 The Theatre of Surrogacy: Ethics of Surrogacy in India 135

10 Dying with Dignity: Sallekhan? vis-a- vis Euthanasia ? Normative, Bioethical and Legal Ramifications 142

11 Ethics of Genetic Modification: Commerce without Morality and Science without Humanity ? A Gandhian Response 161

12 Ethics, Science and Sustainability: A Gandhian Alternative 170

13 Climate Change and Development Ethics after Amartya Sen 184

14 WATER: Rites, Rights and Ecological Justice in India 197

15 Protection of the Indian Coastal Ecosystem through Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) Notifications: An Analysis 211

16 Sustaining Dharma, Sustainable Ecology: Dharma as Rural Environmental Ethics 223

Pankaj Jain

17 On Understanding the Tribe Person?s Worldview 233

18 Yoga as Therapeutic Animal Ethics 239

19 Animal Justice and Moral Mendacity 252

20 You Are What You Eat: Animal and Dietary Ethics in the Early Indian Traditions 264

21 Nature and Humans in the 21st Century: Some Reflections 277

22 Dharma Morality as Virtue Ethics 283

23 Engaged Jainism: Jaina Ethics in a Living Universe 292

24 Buddhist Spirituality and Social Activism in the 20th?21st Centuries 302

25 Ecofeminism from a Buddhist Critical Perspective 313

26 Caregiver vs. Citizen? Reflections on Ecofeminism from Kerala State, India 322

27 Humanizing the Feminine Earth: An Ecofeminist Perspective on the Corporeal Nature 335

28 Ecofeminism and Hindu Tantra 350

Rita Sherma

29 Ethics and Politics in Tagore, Coetzee and Certain Scenes of Teaching 363

30 Towards an Ethics of Location 378

31 The Question of Universalist Justice: Transnational Encounters in Feminism 387

32 Activating the Imagination: Harmony, Justice, and Gender in Tagore?s Thought 394

33 Violence and Humanity: Or, Vulnerability as Political Subjectivity 402

34 From Victim to Survivor: Then and Now Interviews with Flavia Agnes 413

35 Marking Time: The Gendered Present and the Nuclear Future 424

36 The Gandhian Touch: Morals in Politics 435

37 Approaching Gandhian Metaethics: Some Methodological Issues 444

38 Globalization, Gandhi and Free Trade 454

39 Women and Ethics in Hindu Thought and Practice 463

40 Women and Values in Traditional India: A Feminist Probe 471

Anindita Niyogi Balslev

41 Normalization of Dowry 479

42 The Self-Employed Women?s Association (SEWA): Gandhian Ethics and Feminist Ethics in Action 489

43 The Emergent Moral Agent: A Feminism-Buddhism Exchange 498

44 Gandhian Ethics and Feminist Perspectives: In a Somewhat Different Voice 508

45 Is Controlled Śakti to the Bharatan??yam Practitioner as Uncontrolled Śakti Is to the Devad?s?? 518

Index 527