Normative assumptions and Corruption
The first thing to note is that there is no distance between how we use corruption in our daily language and the way it is used in political and sociological…
Read moreNormative Ethics: Moral Dilemmas and Imperfect World
Let us say that ‘X’ does something which ‘Y’ considers corrupt. To keep it simple, let us say that ‘Y’ expresses the aforementioned judgment. In order to express it, or…
Read moreColonial Consciousness: The Logic of “India is Corrupt”
(A) Consider the following sequence of sentences: 1. All Indians are perfectly and fully moral. 2. All westerners are perfectly fully moral. 3. All Indians are immoral. 4. All westerners…
Read moreOn Colonial Experience and the Indian Renaissance: A prolegomenon to a Project—S.N. Balagangadhara
One of the striking things about the British colonial rule is its success in developing certain ways of talking about the Indian culture and society. The British criticised the Indian…
Read moreColonial Experience: Normative Ethics I
1. What is western normative ethics? It is a structure or style of thinking about ethics. What is its structure? It makes use of norms. What are norms? ‘Rules’ or…
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