The Metaphysics of Ethical Love: Comparing Practical Vedanta and Feminist Ethics |
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Authors: | Vrinda Dalmiya |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Philosophy, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Sakamaki Hall, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA |
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Abstract: | In this paper I compare two very different deployments of love in ethics. Swami Vivekananda's concept of ethical love ties
into the project of constructing an alternative masculinity for a colonized people; while feminist care ethics uses love to
escape the perceived masculinity of traditional ethical theory. Using Kenneth Goodpaster's distinction between ‘framework
questions’ and ‘application questions,’ I try to show that love in Practical Vedanta addresses the former while feminist care
ethics concerns itself with the latter. Even though this difference, I suggest, could be a function of their varying historical-political
contexts, the two issues need to be taken together for a more complete understanding of the ethical subject. |
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