Ashwani Peetush

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FirstName / namefirst	Ashwani
LastName / namelast	Peetush
MainNamePhon	Ashwani Peetush
SortName	Peetush, Ashwani
bio	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)
affiliation	Wilfrid Laurier University
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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.