The Metaphysics of Ethical Love: Comparing Practical Vedanta and Feminist Ethics
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...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Springer Netherlands
2009
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Sophia
Year: 2009, Volume: 48, Issue: 3, Pages: 221-235 |
Further subjects: | B
Practical Vedanta
B Relational self B Identification B Feminist care ethics B Swami Vivekananda |
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Summary: | 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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ISSN: | 1873-930X |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Sophia
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11841-009-0094-7 |