Monographs by Roopen Majithia
Bloomsbury Academic , 2024
This effort attempts to bring the Nicomachean Ethics and the Bhagavad Gītā into a cross-cultural ... more This effort attempts to bring the Nicomachean Ethics and the Bhagavad Gītā into a cross-cultural conversation with each other on the issues of ethics, agency, and the good life. Both texts are enormously influential in and even across their respective traditions so that examining them will offer insight into their tradition’s framing considerations and trajectories. We will see that despite their substantive differences, both seem to be interested in similar concerns (such the relation of the form and content of ethical action, the nature ethical agency and the relation of the practical and contemplative lives in the pursuit of the highest good). Yet the focus on the priority of the individual (in Aristotle) and of the social (in the Gītā) shapes their responses so that they are at once irreducible yet insightful, as I hope to show.
Papers by Roopen Majithia
Thinking Deep About Feeling Low, 2012
Archiwum Historii Filozofii i Myśli Społecznej, 2014
ABSTRACT: Syncretism of various kinds is clearly in evidence in the Bhagavad Gītā, yet no attempt... more ABSTRACT: Syncretism of various kinds is clearly in evidence in the Bhagavad Gītā, yet no attempt has been made to show how a consistent ethical syncretism might be articulated and defended in the scholarship. I attempt to do so here by trying to defend a form of consequentialism that allows a place for deontological and virtue-centric intuitions. At the same time, I show that because such consequentialism has freedom (mokṣa) as its highest end, it is more consistent than, and not reducible to, standard western variations of consequentialism.
Syncretism of various kinds is clearly in evidence in the Bhagavad Gītā, yet no attempt has been ... more Syncretism of various kinds is clearly in evidence in the Bhagavad Gītā, yet no attempt has been made to show how a consistent ethical syncretism might be articulated and defended in the scholarship. I attempt to do so here by trying to defend a form of consequentialism that allows a place for deontological and virtue-centric intuitions. At the same time, I show that because such consequentialism has freedom (mokṣa) as its highest end, it is more consistent than, and not reducible to, standard western variations of consequentialism.
Blues-Philosophy for Everyone: Thinking Deep …, 2012
Ethical theory and moral practice, 2006
This essay attempts to show why deliberation is not of ends for Aristotle, not only because delib... more This essay attempts to show why deliberation is not of ends for Aristotle, not only because deliberation is concerned with means, but because ends are grasped by wish. Such wishing, I argue, is a form of rational intuition that is non-discursive and analogous to seeing and therefore not at all like the discursive thought involved in deliberation. Such a reading also helps shed light on the nature of contemplation and therefore on happiness in Aristotle.
American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 2009
The American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 1999
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Monographs by Roopen Majithia
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