About the Book: Dharma And Ethics: The Indian Ideal Of Human Perfection
Set against the background of the contemporary popularity of virtue ethics in
the West, this book projects a unified picture of Indian Virtue Ethics by
highlighting two interrelated purposes. First, it canvasses the point that
Indian ethics, both in its classical and its modern shapes, is basically founded
upon the cultivation of those attitudes that conduce to the realization of a
virtuous self. Second, it draws out the various facets of virtues, traditional
and modern, which bear a specifically Indian character. With these two aspects
combined into a complex whole, this work manages to present