The Routledge Companion to Indian Ethics: Women, Justice, Bioethics and Ecology

This companion volume explores Indian ethics, moving from religious origins to practical reason and normative ethics, addressing social and normative challenges in areas such as womens rights, infant ethics, politics, law, justice, bioethics, and ecology. It builds linkages between existing theories and emerging moral issues, problems, and questions in India and the global arena, drawing on narrative ethics, interviews, critical case studies, and textual analyses. The book is of interest to scholars, researchers, and students of Indian philosophy, ethics, women and infant issues, social justice, environmental ethics, bioethics, animal ethics, and cross-cultural responses to Western moral thought.

Format: Hardback
Length: 546 pages
Publication date: 22 January 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This companion volume delves into the practical applications and profound implications of Indian ethics, expanding its scope beyond its traditional religious roots and classical metaethical inclinations. Here, Indian dharma ethics transitions into what Kant would term practical reason, or, in the poignant words of Aristotle, ēhikos and phronēis. In more contemporary parlance, it encompasses normative ethics. Our study explores a diverse array of social and normative challenges confronting individuals across various domains, including women's rights, infant ethics, politics, law, justice, bioethics, and ecology. As a contemporary work, it establishes connections between existing theories and emerging moral issues, problems, and questions in contemporary India within the global context. The volume brings together contributions from approximately 40 philosophers and contemporary thinkers specializing in practical ethics, examining the breadth and boundaries of ethics as applied to everyday and real-life concerns and socio-economic challenges facing India in the context of a turbulent globalizing world. Thus, this collection draws upon a diverse range of writing and research methods, including narrative ethics, interviews, critical case studies, and textual analyses.

The book holds immense interest for 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 valuable to researchers exploring the intersections of Gandhi, sustainability, ecology, theology, feminism, comparative philosophy, and dharma studies.

Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032638461