Add to ORKGABSTRACT: Syncretism of various kinds is clearly in evidence in the Bhagavad Gītā, yet no attempt has been made to show how a consistent ethical syncretism might be articulated and defended in the scholarship. I attempt to do so here by trying to defend a form of consequentialism that allows a place for deontological and virtue-centric intuitions. At the same time, I show that because such consequentialism has freedom (mokṣa) as its highest end, it is more consistent than, and not reducible to, standard western variations of consequentialism
Is consequentialism consistent with common-sense morality? I argue for a negative answer to this que...
Moral wrongness comes in degrees. On a consequentialist view of ethics, the wrongness of an act shou...
Abstract. To consequentialise a moral theory means to account for moral phe-nomena usually described...
It is often argued that the Git?? spouses the ideal of nishk??m karma i.e. a disinterested performan...
This research project articulates the relationship between freedom and ethics in Indian Madhyamaka. ...
Is there a ‘common element’ in Buddhist ethical thought from which one might rationally reconstruct ...
The problem of the consequentialism in ethics is the subject of this paper. J. Nida-Rümelin, who is ...
In the previous module we examined the dialectic that Krishna initiates in the Bhagavad Gītā. Arjuna...
The Mahabharata, an Indian epic poem, describes a legendary war between two sides of a royal family....
Interpretations of the ethical significance of the Bhagavadgītā typically understand the debate betw...
The article deals with two consequentialist theories and their comparison in terms of promoting cert...
Interpretations of the ethical significance of the Bhagavadgītā typically understand the debate betw...
The thought that acts of supererogation exist presents a challenge to all normative ethical theories...
To consequentialise a moral theory means to account for moral phenomena usually described in noncons...
Vedānta has two meanings. The first is the literal sense – “End of Vedas” – and refers to the Āraṇya...
Is consequentialism consistent with common-sense morality? I argue for a negative answer to this que...
Moral wrongness comes in degrees. On a consequentialist view of ethics, the wrongness of an act shou...
Abstract. To consequentialise a moral theory means to account for moral phe-nomena usually described...
It is often argued that the Git?? spouses the ideal of nishk??m karma i.e. a disinterested performan...
This research project articulates the relationship between freedom and ethics in Indian Madhyamaka. ...
Is there a ‘common element’ in Buddhist ethical thought from which one might rationally reconstruct ...
The problem of the consequentialism in ethics is the subject of this paper. J. Nida-Rümelin, who is ...
In the previous module we examined the dialectic that Krishna initiates in the Bhagavad Gītā. Arjuna...
The Mahabharata, an Indian epic poem, describes a legendary war between two sides of a royal family....
Interpretations of the ethical significance of the Bhagavadgītā typically understand the debate betw...
The article deals with two consequentialist theories and their comparison in terms of promoting cert...
Interpretations of the ethical significance of the Bhagavadgītā typically understand the debate betw...
The thought that acts of supererogation exist presents a challenge to all normative ethical theories...
To consequentialise a moral theory means to account for moral phenomena usually described in noncons...
Vedānta has two meanings. The first is the literal sense – “End of Vedas” – and refers to the Āraṇya...
Is consequentialism consistent with common-sense morality? I argue for a negative answer to this que...
Moral wrongness comes in degrees. On a consequentialist view of ethics, the wrongness of an act shou...
Abstract. To consequentialise a moral theory means to account for moral phe-nomena usually described...