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The Routledge Companion to Indian Ethics

Women, Justice, Bioethics and Ecology
 
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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.

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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.

Table of Contents:

List of Contributors xiv


Preface xxiv


Foreword xxviii


Shyam RanganathanIntroduction


1


Purushottama Bilimoria and Amy Rayner


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


Dipesh Chakrabarty


PART I


Health, Ethics and Public Welfare 35


1 Public Health, Care and Bioethics in Modern India 37


Purushottama Bilimoria2


COVID-19: Lessons in Ethics for Social Assets 54


Om Prakash Dwivedi


3 Biotechnology and Ethics in India 63


Jyoti Dineshrao Bhosale


4 Moral Responsibility and Pharmaceutical Companies 75


Gauri Seth (Verma)


5 Mental Illness and Mental Health Justice 86


Purushottama Bilimoria


6 Embryo Ethics: Traditional Hindu Perspective 99


Piyali Mitra


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


Purushottama Bilimoria, M. K. Sridhar and Arvind Sharma


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


Purushottama Bilimoria and Renuka Sharma


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


Kelly Amal Dhru and Purushottama Bilimoria


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


Purushottama Bilimoria


PART II


Ecology, Sustainability and Spirituality 159


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


Gunjan Pradhan Sinha


12 Ethics, Science and Sustainability: A Gandhian Alternative 170


Bidisha Mallik


13 Climate Change and Development Ethics after Amartya Sen 184


Lindsay Dawson


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


Purushottama Bilimoria and M. K. Sridhar


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


M. Sakthivel and Nagma Khan


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


Pankaj Jain


17 On Understanding the Tribe Person?s Worldview 233


Sujata Miri


18 Yoga as Therapeutic Animal Ethics 239


Kenneth Valpey


19 Animal Justice and Moral Mendacity 252


Purushottama Bilimoria


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


Nishant Upadhyay


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


Manoranjan Mohanty


PART III


Engaged Ethics and Ecofeminism 281


22 Dharma Morality as Virtue Ethics 283


Nicholas F. Gier


23 Engaged Jainism: Jaina Ethics in a Living Universe 292


Christopher Key Chapple


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


Sallie B. King


25 Ecofeminism from a Buddhist Critical Perspective 313


Rita M. Gross


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


J. Devika


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


Meera Baindur


28 Ecofeminism and Hindu Tantra 350


Rita Sherma


PART IV


Ethics and Politics: Contexts and Applications 361


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


Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak


30 Towards an Ethics of Location 378


Morny Joy


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


Sara Ahmed


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


Esha Niyogi De


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


Anupama Rao


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


Flavia Agnes and Amy Rayner (Interviewer)


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


Kumkum Sangari


36 The Gandhian Touch: Morals in Politics 435


Devaki Jain


37 Approaching Gandhian Metaethics: Some Methodological Issues 444


Samiksha Goyal


38 Globalization, Gandhi and Free Trade 454


Sanjay Lal


PART V


Women and the Limits of Traditional Ethics 461


39 Women and Ethics in Hindu Thought and Practice 463


Mandakranta Bose


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


Anindita Niyogi Balslev


41 Normalization of Dowry 479


Praveena Kodoth


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


Margaret A. McLaren


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


Vrinda Dalmiya


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


Bindu Puri


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


Sandra Sattler


Index 527