An Applied Perspective on Indian Ethics
暫譯: 印度倫理的應用視角
Mohapatra, P. K.
- 出版商: Springer
- 出版日期: 2019-07-19
- 售價: $2,420
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $2,299
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 121
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 981137502X
- ISBN-13: 9789811375026
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This book presents a novel interpretation of major problems of Indian ethics from an applied ethical perspective. It approaches prominent theories like Dharma, Karma and Purusarthas from a critical point of view, so as to render them logically consistent and free from some standard limitations. Ethical theories are meant to provide guidance for life, but quite often many of our celebrated theories appear to be inapplicable or difficult to apply in practical life. Indian ethical theories are of special significance to this problem because they have in them rich potentials of applicability as much as many of them typify inapplicable abstract theories of morals. The book incorporates a wealth of research on ethical theories, keeping in view the spirit of ethics and the demands of the situations; for a reasoned balance between the two is the key to applied ethics. The book argues that ethical theories are objective but defeasible in overriding circumstances where competing values deserve preference. Such justified exceptions are warranted by the very spirit of ethics, which is to promote the good life. The argument from defeasibility and justified violation in the book helps bridging the gap between ethics and its application and makes Indian theories of value appear in fresh light- workable, practically applicable and effective as incentives for morality.
With uncommon virtue of contemporized presentation of Indian ethics, this book should be of interest to scholars and researchers working on Indian ethics and moral philosophy, as well as to those interested in Indian culture and value tradition.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本書從應用倫理的角度提出了對印度倫理學主要問題的新詮釋。它以批判的視角探討了如 Dharma、Karma 和 Purusarthas 等重要理論，旨在使這些理論在邏輯上保持一致，並擺脫一些標準的限制。倫理理論旨在為生活提供指導，但我們許多著名的理論往往在實際生活中顯得不適用或難以應用。印度倫理理論對於這個問題具有特殊的重要性，因為它們擁有豐富的應用潛力，儘管其中許多理論典型地表現為不適用的抽象道德理論。這本書整合了大量有關倫理理論的研究，考慮到倫理的精神和情境的需求；因為在兩者之間取得合理的平衡是應用倫理的關鍵。書中主張，倫理理論是客觀的，但在競爭價值需要優先考量的情況下是可以被推翻的。這些合理的例外是由倫理的精神所保證的，該精神旨在促進美好生活。書中的 可推翻性和合理違反的論證 有助於彌合倫理與其應用之間的鴻溝，並使印度的價值理論以新的視角呈現——可行的、實際可應用的，並作為道德的激勵。
這本書以當代化的方式呈現印度倫理，應該會引起對印度倫理學和道德哲學感興趣的學者和研究者的關注，以及對印度文化和價值傳統感興趣的人士。
作者簡介
P. K. Mohapatra, Former Professor of Philosophy at Utkal University, was the National Fellow of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research during October 2013 to September 2016. Earlier, he has been an Emeritus Fellow of the University Grants Commission and also a Senior Fellow of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research.
Professor Mohapatra got the Degree of Ph.D from the University of Keele, England, where he worked as a Commonwealth Scholar during 1974 to 1977. He was a Fulbright Visiting Professor in the United States in 1989. During this visit, he lectured in the universities of Western Michigan, Philadelphia(Temple University), Wittenberg and Iwowa. Later on he was Visiting Professor in Broke University, Otario, Canada in 1993 and in 1995 and also in Ohio State University, USA in 1999
Besides a number of publications in reputed journals of philosophy, Professor Mohapatra has authored five books and edited twelve books published under the Utkal Studies in Philosophy series of publications of which he was the General Editor from 1996 to 2002.
A specialist in Philosophy of Mind and Practical Ethics, Professor Mohapatra is passionately concerned over promotion of human values in the society.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
P. K. Mohapatra，曾任烏塔卡爾大學哲學教授，於2013年10月至2016年9月期間擔任印度哲學研究委員會的國家研究員。早前，他曾是大學補助委員會的名譽研究員，並且也是印度哲學研究委員會的高級研究員。
Mohapatra教授於英國基爾大學獲得博士學位，並在1974年至1977年間擔任英聯邦獎學金獲得者。他於1989年在美國擔任富布賴特訪問教授。在此期間，他在西密歇根大學、費城（天普大學）、維滕堡大學和愛荷華大學講授課程。之後，他於1993年和1995年在加拿大安大略省的布魯克大學擔任訪問教授，並於1999年在美國俄亥俄州立大學任教。
除了在知名哲學期刊上發表多篇論文外，Mohapatra教授還著有五本書籍，並編輯了十二本書籍，這些書籍均發表於他自1996年至2002年擔任總編輯的《烏塔卡爾哲學研究》系列出版物中。
作為心靈哲學和實踐倫理的專家，Mohapatra教授熱衷於促進社會中的人類價值觀。
