Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Ethics

Shyam Ranganathan is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department of York University, Canada.

• PrefacePart I: Western Imperialism, Philosophy and Ethics (Shyam Ranganathan) 1. Moral Philosophy: The Right and the Good 2. Philosophy, Religion and Scholarship 3. The West, the Primacy of Linguistics and Indology 4. Beyond Moral Twin Earth: Beyond Indology 5. Interpretation, Explication and Secondary Sources Part II: Moral Theory 6. The Scope for Wisdom: Early Buddhism on Reasons and Persons – Jake Davis 7. Jaina Virtue Ethics: Action and NonAction – Jayandra Soni 8. Patañjali’s Yoga: Universal Ethics as the Formal Cause of Autonomy – Shyam Ranganathan 9. Nyaya Consequentialism – Kisor Chakrabarti 10. Mindfulness and Moral Transformation: Awakening to Others in Santideva’s Ethics – William Edelglass11. Three Vedantas: Three Accounts of Character, Freedom and Responsibility – Shyam RanganathanPart III: Applied Ethics 12. Medical Ethics in the Sanskrit Medical Tradition – Dagmar Wujastyk 13. Toward a Complete and Integral Mimamsa Ethics: Learning with Madhava’s GARLAND of Jaimini’s Reasons – Francis X. Clooney, SJ Part IV: Ethics and Politics 14. A Study in the Narrative Ethics of the Mahabharata – Edeltraud Harzer 15. Ethics of M. K. Gandhi: Non-Violence and Truth – A. Raghuramaraju 16. The Ethics of Radical Equality: Vivekananda and Radhakrishnan’s Neo-Hinduism as a form of Spiritual Liberalism – Ashwani Peetush GlossaryIndex

Ranganathan’s own contributions are invaluable, not only to research in Indian ethics, but to all philosophy ... The book is a success. Ranganathan’s analysis of explication has the potential to reinvigorate lively debate on ethical concepts.