Moral philosophy and de-colonialism : the irrationality of oppression / Shyam Ranganathan.
| Author/creator | Ranganathan, Shyam author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. |
| Description | xi, 256 pages ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Part One: Introduction -- (1) Colonialism and Philosophical Apartheid -- Part Two: Metaethics -- (2) Moral Semantics, Genocide, and Indigeneity -- (3) Religion: Two Millennia of the White Supremacist Erasure of Moral Philosophy -- (4) Gatekeeping, Peer Review, and the Normalization of Appropriative Stupidity -- Part Three: Normative Ethics -- (5) Conventional Morality: Good Character, Good Outcomes, Good Rules -- (6) Devotion to the Ideal of the Right: Three Levels of Decolonization -- Part Four: Applied Ethics -- (7) Applied Ethics and the De-Colonial Politics of Moral Philosophy -- Part Five: Conclusion -- (8) Research and Activism -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Abstract | "Drawing on South Asian moral philosophy that colonization renders invisible, Ranganathan argues that all irrationality and oppression stems from interpretation: a confusion of thought with attitudes toward thoughts that impose perspectives as explanations. Indigenous traditions use explication: explanation in terms of thought itself (not attitudes toward thoughts). The historical origins of interpretation lie in the Linguistic Account of Thought (LAT), which confuses what can be thought with culturally encoded attitudes. Ranganathan's book explores how colonization stems not from stated values but from the metaethical choice to interpret, creating a rational obligation to decolonize. Drawing from Western, Chinese, and Indian traditions while making contributions to the philosophies of AI, science, race, reason, religion, language, thought, and translation, this book makes visible the Indigenous foundations of moral philosophy and all inquiry, along with the colonial origins of irrationality."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-237) and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781350464162 |
| ISBN | 9781350464148 |
| ISBN | 9781350464131 hardback |
| ISBN | 1350464139 |
| ISBN | 1350464147 |
| ISBN | ePub ebook |
| ISBN | PDF ebook |
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