Traditional Indian Virtue Ethics for Today

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.

• 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.