Abstracts
Résumé
Le sujet de l'éthique et de la morale a suscité, ces dernières années, un renouveau d'attention dans nombre de disciplines des sciences humaines et sociales. À partir de certains des travaux récents sur ce sujet, cet essai esquisse de nouvelles directions de recherche pour l'étude de l'éthique en Asie du Sud. Les approches antérieures tendaient à considérer l'éthique soit comme un système entièrement conceptuel, soit comme une forme de fausse conscience générique. Au contraire, nous soutenons que l'éthique est une forme de pratique sociale qui demande à être abordée en tant qu'elle s'inscrit dans des contextes historiques contingents où elle s'incarne, s'expérimente et se communique. À la lumière de nos propres travaux et d'autres recherches récentes dans les domaines de l'histoire et de l'archéologie, nous affirmons que les traditions éthiques d'Asie du Sud offrent un vaste substrat pour une telle approche. Nous cherchons également à développer une sensibilité à la fois à la nature temporellement intriquée de l'éthique, et aux continuités et ruptures complexes en fonction desquelles la morale s'est façonnée dans l'Asie du Sud contemporaine.
Mots clés:
- Ali,
- Pandian,
- éthique,
- morale,
- vertu,
- généalogie,
- Asie du Sud,
- soi,
- altérité
Abstract
The subject of ethics and morality has received renewed attention across a wide variety of humanistic and social scientific disciplines in recent times. Drawing from some of this work, the essay outlines new directions of enquiry for the study of ethics in South Asia. Existing approaches have tended to see ethics either as an entirely conceptual system or as a form of generic false consciousness. We emphasize, by contrast, that ethics is a form of social practice which demands to be apprehended as embodied, experienced and communicated in historically contingent contexts. We argue, through reference to both our own and other recent work in the fields of history and anthropology, that South Asian ethical traditions provide ample scope for such an approach. We also seek to develop a sensitivity to the temporally entangled nature of ethics and the complex continuities and ruptures with which the figuration of a moral present in South Asia took shape.
Keywords:
- Ali,
- Pandian,
- Ethics,
- Virtue,
- Genealogy,
- South Asia,
- Selfhood,
- Alterity
Resumen
El sujeto de la ética y de la moral ha suscitado, estos últimos anos, un resurgimiento de la atención de un buen número de disciplinas de las ciencias humanas y sociales. A partir de ciertos trabajos recientes sobre dicho sujeto, el presente ensayo esboza nuevas orientaciones de investigación del estudio de la ética en Asia del sur. Los enfoques anteriores tendían a considerar la ética como un sistema totalmente conceptual o como una forma de falsa consciencia genérica. Al contrario, nosotros sostenemos que la ética es una forma de práctica social que exige ser abordada en tanto que inscrita en los contextos históricos contingentes en donde se encarna, se experimenta y se comunica. A la luz de nuestros propios trabajos y de otras investigaciones recientes en los campos de la historia y de la arqueología, afirmamos que las tradiciones éticas de Asia del sur ofrecen un vasto substrato para dicho enfoque. Buscamos asimismo desarrollar una sensibilidad a la naturaleza temporal intrincada de la ética, a las continuidades y a las rupturas complejas en función de las cuales se ha modelado la figura moral contemporánea de Asia del sur.
Palabras clave:
- Ali,
- Pandian,
- ética,
- moral,
- virtud,
- genealogía,
- Asia del sur,
- alteridad
Appendices
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