INDIAN ETHICS

The book starts with a reputation of objections against Indian Ethics and a historical review of the subject from the Vedas to present day. Therefore, subsequent chapters have been devoted to a discussion of the ethics of the Vedas, the Upanishads and the Bhagwad Gita, the three repositories of ancient Indian wisdom. Then follows an analysis of different aspects of ancient Indian ethics: Dharma; the central principle of Indian Ethics, Ethics of Varna System, Ethics of Ashram System, Ethics of Social Institutions and Ancient Indian Political Ethics, Ancient Indian Jural Ethics. Indian philosophy has been distinguished into orthodox and hetrodox schools. Of the orthodox schools, the most important, from the point of view of discussion on ethics are Samkhya-Yoga and Moral philosophy of Shankaracharya. Among Hetrodox schools the moral ideas of Charvakas, Jains and Buddhists have been discussed. Then follows the discussion of the moral ideas of modern Indian thinkers including Swami Dayananda, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, M.K. Gandhi and R.N. Tagore. The last chapter discusses nature and general characteristics of Ancient Indian Ethics and its comparison to modern Indian Ethics. Thus the present work will serve the purpose of a reference manual and a text book for students, teachers and researchers on Indian ethics.

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