Examining virtue ethical foundations of non-dualistic Vedānta

• Simran Raina School of Philosophy and Culture, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra, J&K, India
• Varun Kumar Tripathi School of Philosophy and Culture, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University Katra, J&K, India

Abstract

Present paper inquires into two issues via comparative research methods; First, non-dualistic Vedanta undertakes any kind of ethical discourse in its philosophical investigations; second, what is the nature of that discourse? The paper demonstrates that the reproaches of life and world denial in the non-dualistic Vedanta are raised primarily from the point of view of normative ethics. As a conclusion, without the proposed understanding of the underpinned virtue ethics in the Non-dualistic Vedānta, the received understanding of the system is incomplete and sustains a misconception that there is no meaningful ethical discourse possible in its framework.