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22Ethics of emotion: Some Indian reflectionsIn Roger Ames, Robert C. Solomon & Joel Marks (eds.), Emotions in Asian Thought: A Dialogue in Comparative Philosophy, Suny Press. pp. 65--85. 1995.
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42A subaltern/postcolonial critique of the comparative philosophy of religionSophia 39 (1): 171-207. 2000.Apart from the said AAR Symposium, a central part of the paper was also earlier presented in the Philosophy Department Colloquia, in the University of Melbourne; and it has benefited from my research in the Gibson Library as a Senior Fellow in the Department. I note gratidue also to my #259 colleagues, Dr Guy Petterson and Patrick Hutchings for help with research and/or comments on various excerpted drafts from the evolving work. And to many friends who have heard my wailings on this problematic…Read more
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27Duhkha & Karma: the problem of evil and God’s Omnipotence (review)Sophia 34 (1): 92-119. 1995.This paper arises from a symposium on philosophical reconstructions of religious doctrines within the 16th conference of the Australasian Association for the Study of Religions held in the Armidale, N.S.W., July, 1993. The convenor, Peter Forrest, read a paper on ‘Making sense of karma and original sin’, and I elected to discuss the doctrine of karma in the context of the problem of evil. Forrest's paper appeared in the previous issue ofSophia and I shall be making reference to this paper as For…Read more
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20Animal Justice and Moral MendacitySophia 57 (1): 53-67. 2018.I wish to take up some of the sentiments we have towards animals and put them to test in respect of the claims to moral high grounds in Indian thought-traditions vis-à-vis Abrahamic theologies. And I do this by turning the focus in this instance—on a par with issues of caste, gender, minority status, albeit still within the human community ambience—to the question of animals. Which leads me to ask how sophisticated and in-depth is the appreciation of the issues and questions that are currently b…Read more
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810. A Critique of Economic Reason: Between Tradition and PostcolonialityIn Roger T. Ames Peter D. Hershock (ed.), Value and Values: Economics and Justice in an Age of Global Interdependence, University of Hawaii Press. pp. 198-213. 2015.
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48Varieties of Ethical Reflection: New Directions for Ethics in a Global Context (edited book)Lexington Books. 2002.Varieties of Ethical Reflection brings together new cultural and religious perspectives—drawn from non-Western, primarily Asian, philosophical sources—to globalize the contemporary discussion of theoretical and applied ethics
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43Ancestors and Anxiety: Daoism and the Birth of Rebirth in China. By Stephen R. Bokenkamp. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. Pp. xi+ 220. Hard-cover $49.95,£ 32.50. Arnis Self-Defense: Stick, Blade, and Empty-Hand Combat Techniques of the Philip-pines. By José G. Paman. Berkeley: Blue Snake Books, 2007. Pp. xv+ 178 (review)Philosophy East and West 58 (2): 297-299. 2008.