Morality, Objectivity and Defeasibility Essays on the Moral Writings of Professor P.K.Mohapatra

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Prime focus on Ethics and Society Mohapatra on Ethics and Its Application ......3 Paradox of Applied Ethics ......10 Rationality, morality and Objectivity .......23 Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics : Is reconciliation possible ...........32 Value in Nature: A pluralistic approach ..........42 The difficulty of Being Good ............64 Designing a desirable world : Pfrofessor mohapatra on the Possiblitiy of Applied Ethics ........77 Morality, objectivity and Applicability : A response .....87 Understanding moral Values : Subjective or Objective .........93 On theoretic to applied ethics .........103 Perspnal Identity as moral Identity : P K MOhapatra on Moral Personhood ......123 2. Prime focus on Bhinna Dristhi IN search of a Morally better world ....135 Bhinna drishti : A blueprint on the primacy of the ethical .....15- Observations on Action and its Ethicality .........162 Bhinna drishti in Contemporary hermeneutics .......177 Mohapatra`s Drishti in Contemporary Hermenutics ....177 Mohapatra`s Bhinna Drishti ..........182 Mohapatra on religion, religiousity and secularism ..........192 Karma sans rebirth ? on Mohapatra`s Critique of the Doctrine of Karma .........201 P K MOhapatra`s Moral stand .....206 Response to some major criticisms ..........228