Peetush, A.

Peetush, A. on the DRL

Authors of English Works • Professors

Ashwani Peetush

English Phonetics	Ashwani Peetush
Sort Name	Peetush, Ashwani

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

About

Primary Affiliation (Workplace)

Wilfrid Laurier University

Biographical Information

Ashwani Peetush is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. His research areas encompass ethics, political philosophy, and Indian philosophy; particular themes of interest include human rights, pluralism, and the metaphysics of the self and consciousness in Advaita Vedānta and Buddhism. His recent publications include Human Rights: India and the West (edited with Jay Drydyk, OUP, 2015); "Justice, Diversity, and Dialogue: Rawlsian Multiculturalism" in Multiculturalism and Religious Identity, ed. S. Sikka and L. Beaman (McGill-Queens Press, 2014); and "The Ethics of Radical Equality" in The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Ethics, ed. S. Ranganathan (Bloomsbury, 2017). (Source: Ethics without Self, Dharma without Atman)

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Though it can simply be used as the expression "I" or "me", in Indian thought the notion of self refers to a permanent, unchanging entity, such as that which passes from life to life in the case of people, or the innate essence (svabhāva) of phenomena.