-
“The Paradox o...
“The Paradox of Obligation “
and Other Conceptual Essays in Moral Philosophy by: Rajendra Prasad₹1,440.00
ISBN: 9788124610657
Year Of Publication: 2021
Edition: 1st
Pages : xii,440
Bibliographic Details : Bibliography,Index
Language : English
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher: D.K. Printworld Pvt. Ltd.
Size: 23cm
Weight: 760
The essays included in this book provide highly critical and creative analysis of some of the basic problems of normative and meta—ethies in a pleasantly readable language. They can be enjoyably and profitably read by technical philosophers as well as interested bymen. Professor Prasad writes on ethical issues as seminal, conceptual issues of moral philosophical, and not as issues arising out of some regional, Indian or non-Indian, instances of moral thinking. Even ethical issues, generally discussed as rooted in classical Indian thinking, have been discussed by him as basic ones of moral philosophising, and thereby he raises the status of some classical Indian views to a level at which their conceptual, general or non-regional, role becomes crystac clear, His writings by to bridge the gulf wrongly created by some others, between Indian and Western moral theorising.
Preface
1. On Wittgenstein’s Transcendental Ethics:
An Analysis
2. The Paradox of Obligation
3. Applying Ethics: Modes, Motives and Levels of
Commitment
Ethics and the World
Applicability of an Ethical Theory
Primacy of the Ethical
Ethics and Metaethics
Application and Motivation
Application and levels of Commitment
4. Man’s Timeless Dialogue with His God:
Another Recording
5. Promising as Obligating Their Fulfilment
6. Ordinary Language, the Fact of Our Having
a Responsibility, Responsibility’s Absolvers,
and Ability as Absolvers’ Absence
Ordinary Language as the Homeland of
the Concept of Responsibility
Ways of having a Responsibility
Being a Responsible Person
Being Responsible For
Intentionality and Agency
Responsibility and Ability: Ability as the
Absence of Conditions which Disallow
Undiluted Predication of “Responsible”
Responsibility and Duty
7. Formal Logic and the Autonomy of Ethics
8. On Identifying a Substantive Give and Take
between Philosophy and Science
Substantive Give and Take
Characterization of Substantive Give and Take
Preparatory Work for Facilitating Give and Take
Some Illustrations of Substantive Give and Take
9. The Gītā’s Theory of Action: A Secular–Analytic
Assessment
A Methodological Confession
Doing and Desiring (Intending): Some Basics
of Action Theory
The Gītā’s Pleading for Abnegation of Desires
The Gītā’s Pleading for Non-attachment to
Results of Actions
Non-attachment to Results of Desireful Actions
Implies Abnegation of Desireful Actions
(or all Actions)
10. Indian Democracy, Cultural Heritage and
Philosophical Progress
Democracy and People’s All-round Well-Being
Progress-making Philosophizing
Progressive vs Exegetical writing
Indian Practice of Democracy and
Its Use of Classical Heritag
Political Use of an Exegesis
Cultural Nationalism and Intellectual Integrity
11. Gandhi, Globalization and Quality of Life:
A Study in the Ethics of Development
Development Model and Quality of Life
Gandhian Model for India’s Development
by Making Villages Self-sustained
Concept of a Self-Sustained Village
Globalization and its likely Ethical Fallout
Globalization as Multilateral Trade
Globalization and Academics
Gandhian and Globalization Models placed
Face to Face
12. On Priding and Being Proud Of
Priding
Being Proud of and Being Proud
Hume’s Theory of Pride
Davidson’s Interpretation of Hume’s
Theory Explained and Commented On
13. Logical Rights in the Backdrop of General
Human Rights
Some Generalities of Human Rights
Logical Rights as only Humans’ Rights
Logical Rights: Illustrative Elaboration
14. Aurobindo on Reality as Value
15. Restoring to Education Its Natural Role
of Value-Inculcation: A Modest Proposal
Objectives
Content
Recipients
Social Reality
Methodology
Infrastructure
Achievement of Objectives through Normal
Routine
16. Patriotism Guided by Patriot’s Idea
of the Country Concerned
17. Luck, Desert and the Myth of Moral Luck
Some Commonalities of Things Attributed to
Luck
Generation of Desert
Fred Feldman’s Rejection of the Common-Sense
View: Discussed and Shown Untenable
Luck and Moral Assessment
Nagel’s Analysis of the Role of Moral Luck
Examined
Bibliography
Index
““The Paradox of Obligation “”
-
Sale!Navya Nyaya Philosophy of Language ₹360.00
This book represents the philosophy of language in Navya-Nyaya, based upon an analysis of the “Verbal Suffix Chapter” (Akhyatavada) of Gangesha’s Tattvacintamani. Since this chapter elaborates what kind of verbal understanding is generated and discusses related issues, the book demonstrates the main features of that philosophy of language and serves as a good introduction to that. The analysis mainly deals with Gangesha, but in some cases it refers to Raghunatha. Since the book is an attempt to pursue philological exactness and philosophical analysis, it is hoped to interest not only Sanskrit scholars, but also philosophers in general.
The book consists of four lectures. Lecture I clarifies Gangesha’s view of the meaning of the suffixes of a finite verb, which (meaning) is greatly disputed among the Navya-Nyaya philosophers, the Mimamsa philosophers, and the Grammarians. Lecture II investigates how Gangesha determines the meaning of words and illustrates that his method bears upon ontological categories of Vaisheshika. Lecture III deals with Gangesha’s “Five Definitions of Invariable Concomitance Section” (Vyaptipancaka) and elucidates the relation between meaning and the logical structure of the definitions. The lecture also provides diagrams as a tool to represent the structure. Lecture IV explains the realistic standpoint of Navya-Nyaya by clarifying the concept of the counterpositive (pratiyogin) of absence (abhava), or a thing whose existence is negated, focusing on empty terms or non-factual expressions such as “a round triangle”, “the present King of France”, “a rabbit’s horn”, and so forth. The lecture delineates how Udayana, Gangesha, and Raghunatha observed and, as the time passed, did realism thoroughly in language analysis. -
Sale!Brahman and the World ₹450.00
“The Vedānta has been rightly called the Finest Fruit of Indian Thought and the Upaniṣads as the Finer Flowers. Vedānta grows out of the teachings of the Upaniṣads and passes into the various systems in the writings of Śaṅkara, Bhāskara, Rāmānuja, Madhva and Vallabha, the great founders of Advaita, Bhedābheda, Viśiṣṭādvaita, Dvaitādvaita and Śuddhādvaita, respectively. However, there is a perception among Orientalists that while the Upaniṣads favour the Monistic doctrine, Bādarāyaṇa’s Brahmasūtra fundamentally opposes it on some of the most crucial points.
The book thus delves deep into the philosophies of both Bādarāyaṇa and Śaṅkara in enunciating the essential features of Brahman and Its association with the world. It thus discusses topics such as what sort of cause Brahman is?, and what sort of material causality is to be ascribed to It? It also addresses the conflicting views on the nature of Brahman like that of Vivarttavāda and of Rāmānuja’s Saguṇa-Brahman.
This book proposes to take up the question of Universal Causation to examine thoroughly as how far it is right to regard Brahman as the Universal Cause and how far sūtrakāra himself lent his support to each of the inter-conflicting schools of Vedānta. This book should, therefore, benefit all who are devoted to the philosophic teachings of Advaita Vedānta and its preceptors.” -
Sale!Theory of Karma: As Interpreted in Brahmasutra and Bhagavadgita ₹900.00
Creation is a process, where the potential insentient matter (prakr̥ti) gets manifested into the gross form, to embody during the sr̥ṣṭi, each of the sentient entities called the ātmas with the suitable body either of deva, manuṣya, jaṅgama or of sthāvara. This glorious activity is orchestrated by the one and only Omnipresent, Omnipotent and Omniscient Reality called Brahman. But one question remains still an enigma, as to why a particular sentient entity gets a specified body and through whose direction that decision arrives? The ancient Vedāntic knowledge reinforced by the Brahmasūtra and the Bhagavadgītā establishes that it is, purely and solidly, the result (karma-phala) of earlier actions (karmas) of each one of the sentient entities. This is a strong and formidable solution to the unanswered questions like why does, one child being blessed to be born in either rich or healthy and sāttvic family and another child being consigned to be born in a family living in poor conditions or unhealthy tāmasic environment.
This book would engage the readers to think on those lines by supplying enough material on karma-adhikāratva, jīva-kartr̥tva and Divine intervention. -
Sale!Jadavpur Journal of Philosophy ₹270.00
This book proposes to take up the question of Universal Causation to examine thoroughly as how far it is right to regard Brahman as the Universal Cause and how far strakra himself lent his support to each of the inter-conflicting schools of Vednta. This book should, therefore, benefit all who are devoted to the philosophic teachings of Advaita Vednta and its preceptors.
-
Sale!An Introduction to Jain Philosophy ₹1,440.00
It is well-known that the Jain tradition has been extremely influential in the development of Indian thought and culture. The Jain tradition teaches that there is an interdependence of perception, knowledge, and conduct unified by an axiomatic principle of non-violence in thought, speech, and action. In this way, non-violence defines the core of the Jain tradition, which has had a profound effect on other dharmic traditions originating in India. Jain Dharma is so significant that in some ways it may be incomplete to attempt to understand other Indian traditions (such as Buddhism or Hinduism) without knowing the basics of the Jain tradition, since these other traditions developed in an ongoing dialogue with the insights and wisdom of Jain respondents and visionaries.
This book enables the reader to enjoy a comprehensive journey into the intricate world of Jain thought and culture in a way that is philosophical in its compelling rationality, deeply spiritual in its revelations, yet accessible in its language. The organization of this book allows the reader to engage in an overview of the central teachings of the Jain tradition, but also to ascertain the profundity of its depths. It can be read with equal efficacy in succession from beginning to end, or pursued by individual topics of interest to the reader. Either strategy will have the same effect: a systematic understanding of what the timeless teachings of Jain thinkers have to say about the universal issues of the human condition – and how we might understand our harmonious relationship with other living entities as a powerful and effective spiritual journey.
There are no reviews yet.