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829Pūrva Mīmāṃsā: Non-Natural, Moral Realism (Ethics-1, M14)In A. Raghuramaraju (ed.), Philosophy, E-Pg Pathshala, India, Department of Higher Education (nmeict). 2016.In this module I set out the Moral Non-Naturalism of Pūrva Mīmāṃsā as a version of Deontology that defines duty in terms of its beneficent properties. It elucidates the scheme of right living according to ordinance or command. Whereas natural accounts of moral terms suffer from circularity (by merely re-naming of a natural property with a moral term, which then serves to justify its moral appraisal), proponents of Mīmāṃsā defend their position by offering the Vedas as constituting independent ev…Read more
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13The Scope of Moral Philosophy (Ethics-1, M02)In A. Raghuramaraju (ed.), Philosophy, E-Pg Pathshala, India, Department of Higher Education (nmeict). 2016.In this lesson we review the philosophical foundations of ethics as a sub-field of philosophy. Ethics, moral or dharma philosophy is the confluence of dissenting theories and what they have in common as they disagree is the basic concept of ETHICS/DHARMA: THE RIGHT OR THE GOOD. Every theory of ethics or dharma is an account of this concept from some perspective. This allows us to identify three varieties of moral philosophical investigation: applied ethics, normative ethics and metaethics. It al…Read more
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8Kantian Ethics: Indian Responses (Ethics-1, M24)In A. Raghuramaraju (ed.), Philosophy, E-Pg Pathshala, India, Department of Higher Education (nmeict). 2016.In this lesson, I review critical responses to Kant that can be understood as having non-Western, Indian roots. One criticism is articulated by the famous contemporary moral philosopher, Thomas Nagel. While Nagel is not a Buddhist, his criticism of Kant’s ethics is Buddhist in essence. The other response is based on an appreciation of the philosophy of Yoga. Yoga and Kantian thought are both versions of a kind of moral philosophy, which we could call Explanatory Dualism. Moreover, Yoga and Kanti…Read more
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2Ethics and Religion (Ethics-1, M03)In A. Raghuramaraju (ed.), Philosophy, E-Pg Pathshala, India, Department of Higher Education (nmeict). 2016.This lesson explores the relationship between ethics and religion. There is a tradition of thinking that religion takes explanatory priority in ethics, but there is a counter tradition of philosophy that shows that philosophical questions of the right or the good take priority over religious questions: without answering the philosophical question we are not in a position to endorse a religious tradition as right or good. But on a global scale the issue is fraught with the realities of the coloni…Read more
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69Of Language, Translation Theory and a Third Way in SemanticsEssays in Philosophy 8 (1): 1. 2007.Translation theory and the philosophy of language have largely gone their separate ways (the former opting to rebrand itself as “translation studies” to emphasize its empirical and anti-theoretical underpinnings). Yet translation theory and the philosophy of language have predominately shared a common assumption that stands in the way of determinate translation. It is that languages, not texts, are the objects of translation and the subjects of semantics. The way to overcome the theoretical prob…Read more
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