Objective of Course:
The objective of this course is to explore the epics with the aim of extracting and exacting philosophical perspectives that may provide a more grounded and rooted introduction to ethical problems and theorizing for the student of philosophy in general and the Indian student in particular. This is a new course planned for the IIT students. The course is also influenced by the classes taken and a book written by Professor B K Matilal at the Oxford University titled ‘Moral Dilemmas in the Mahabharata’. Ethical theories are generally placed in an abstract and thereby abstruse manner in the introductory literature to undergraduate courses in moral philosophy. This course aims to overcome this difficulty by placing the classical theories and debates of ethics in a more contextual manner harnessing the narrative power of the epics.
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Year of Publication / Reprint |
1. |
Bandyopādhyāẏa Śibājī. Three Essays on the Mahābhārata: Exercises in Literary Hermeneutics. Orient Black Swan.
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2016 |
2. |
Bilimoria, Purusottama, et al. Indian Ethics. Routledge. |
2017 |
3. |
LaFollette, Hugh. Ethics in Practice: An Anthology. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. |
1997 |
4. |
Singer, Peter. A Companion to Ethics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Reference. |
1991 |
5. |
Karve, Irawati Karmarkar. Yuganta: the End of an Epoch. Sangam books. |
1974 |
6. |
Merchant, Paul. The Epic: The Critical Idiom Reissued. Routledge. |
1971 |
7. |
Mohanty, J. N. Reason and Tradition in Indian Thought: an Essay on the Nature of Indian Philosophical Thinking. Clarendon Press. |
2002 |
8. |
Raghuramaraju, A. Philosophy and India Ancestors, Outsiders, and Predecessors. Oxford University Press. |
2013 |
9. |
Stock, Brian. “Ethics and the Humanities: Some Lessons of Historical Experience.” New Literary History, vol. 36, no. 1, 2005, pp. 1–17., doi:10.1353/nlh.2005.0027.
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2005 |
10. |
Radhakrishnan, S., Indian Philosophy, Vols: I & II, (Second |
2009 (Second Edition) |
11. |
Matilal, Bimal Krishna and Jonardon Ganeri. Ethics and Epics. OUP. |
2017 |
12. |
Bilimoria, Purusottama, Joseph Prabhu, and Renuka M. Sharma. Indian Ethics. Aldershot, England: Ashgate. |
2007 |