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Understanding the Caste System and Its Maintenance: Brave New World’s World State and Ambedkar’s Stratified Hindu Society in Annihilation of Caste
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World contains and resembles a caste system found in Hindu society. While in Hindu society, Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas...
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The Insurrectionary Gandhi and the Revolutionary Ambedkar: Caste and Varna
The conflict between Gandhi and Ambedkar was at its worst around the issues of caste and varna. This chapter will present and philosophically...
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“Educate, Agitate, Organize”: Inequality and Ethics in the Writings of Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Scholars of business and management studies have recently turned their attention to inequality, a key issue for business ethics given the role of...
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Charvaka (Cārvāka)
The Charvaka (Cārvāka)-s are the last known materialists in India. They appeared in or around the eighth century CE and, for some unknown reason,...
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Lived Experience and the Idea of the Social in Alfred Schutz: A Phenomenological Study of Contemporary Relevance
The concept of lived experience plays a significant role in the social sciences in general and in philosophy in particular. The idea of lived...
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A Symphony of Looking-Glasses: Hindu Systems of Thought as Cultural “Existents”
The title of this lecture must sound unfamiliar and exotic at the Colloquium for the History and Philosophy of Science. So it will be the first of my...
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By Way of Introduction: The Ambedkar–Gandhi Debate: Three Fundamental Questions
The introductory chapter to this book on the Ambedkar–Gandhi debate will bring up three important questions, answers to which, underlay the conflicts...
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Philanthropy and the Making of a New Moral Order: A History of Develo** Community
Community development, or the socio-economic transformation of local communities, has been a significant focus of organizational ethics. Such...
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In Conclusion: Owners and Authors. Of Surplus, Generosity and Trust
This chapter moves beyond a discussion of the conflicts and the incommensurability between Ambedkar and Gandhi’s contrary understandings of the self,...
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The Meat of the Matter, or the Neglect of Vegetarianism and Animal Ethics in Contemporary Ecotopian Science Fiction
In response to the current climate crisis, organisations such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and United Nations Food and...
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Anti-ethics as Insurrectionist Ethics: An Analysis of the Normative Foundations of Philosophies Born of Struggle
This chapter provides a conceptual analysis of Tommy J. Curry’s anti-ethical stance. In what sense is anti-ethics opposed to, or against, ethics? I...
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An Anger-Based Contextualist Account of Justifiable Violence: An African Case Study
In this chapter, I defend an anger-based contextualist account of justifiable violence, using the African context as a case study. To set the stage,...
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Gandhi in the Twenty-First Century: Ideas and Relevance
This is an introductory chapter of this edited volume. This chapter reflects on the relevance of Gandhian ideas in dealing with the contemporary...
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Ambedkar and Gandhi: Self, Community and God
This chapter argues that the differences between Ambedkar and Gandhi emerged from their incommensurable conceptions of the self and the relationship...
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Rank, Types, and Pejorative Epithets
The twofold aim of this chapter is as follows: On the one hand, it seeks to challenge the ‘perspectivist’ approach to Nietzsche’s work by confronting...