Content Tagged: To Uphold the World

Books

• To Uphold the World: A Call for a New Global Ethic From Ancient India

  To Uphold the World: A Call for a New Global Ethic From Ancient India

  In this powerful critique of the current wave of globalization, Rich urgently calls for a new global ethic, distilling the messages of Ashoka and Kautilya while reflecting on think...

  ---

Articles

• The First Habitat and Species Laws

  The First Habitat and Species Laws

  The great Indian Emperor Ashoka (reigned 268–239 B.C.) promoted non-violence, religious tolerance, and protection of animals and habitat. Kautilya (c. 350–283 B.C.), chief minister...

  ---

Videos

• Universal Healthcare in Ancient India

  Universal Healthcare in Ancient India

  Universal Healthcare in Ancient India: In To Uphold the World: A Call for a New Global Ethic from Ancient India, author Bruce Rich contemplates the rule of the Indian emper...

  ---

• With Amartya Sen, A Global Ethic from Ancient India,Moderator: Homi Bhabha, Harvard Humanities Center.

  With Amartya Sen, A Global Ethic from Ancient India,Moderator: Homi Bhabha, Harvard Humanities Center.

  With Amartya Sen, A Global Ethic from Ancient India. What can ancient Indian thinkers Ashoka and Kautilya tell us about how to think about the dilemmas of globalization in...

  ---

• Lessons from Ashoka & Kautilya for sustainable development

  Lessons from Ashoka & Kautilya for sustainable development

  Lessons from Ashoka & Kautilya: In conversation with Bruce Rich, Attorney, Environmental Law Institute, USA at the Eastern Himalayan Naturenomics Forum 2017, Guhawati,...

  ---

Tags:

• accountability
• accountability
• Adam Smith
• Adam Smith
• Afghanistan
• Afghanistan
• al-Qaida
• al-Qaida
• Albert Schweitzer
• Albert Schweitzer
• Amartya Sen
• Amartya Sen
• amorality (Kautilya's)
• amorality (Kautilya's)
• ancient India
• ancient India
• animal hospitals
• animal hospitals
• Antonio Negri
• Antonio Negri
• Aramaic
• Aramaic
• Aristotle
• Aristotle
• Arnold Toynbee
• Arnold Toynbee
• artha
• artha
• Arthasastra (Kautilya's)
• Arthasastra (Kautilya's)
• Ashoka
• Ashoka
• Ashoka Fifth Piller Edict
• Ashoka Fifth Piller Edict
• Ashokan Edicts
• Ashokan Edicts
• Ashokan ethic
• Ashokan ethic
• Ashokavadana
• Ashokavadana
• assassination
• assassination
• atheism
• atheism
• Axial Age
• Axial Age
• Balipara Foundation
• Balipara Foundation
• beneficence
• beneficence
• benevolence
• benevolence
• Bhabha Homi
• Bhabha Homi
• Bhagavad Gita
• Bhagavad Gita
• Bodh Gaya
• Bodh Gaya
• Bodhi tree
• Bodhi tree
• bottom-up
• bottom-up
• Brahmins
• Brahmins
• bribery
• bribery
• Buddha
• Buddha
• Buddhism
• Buddhism
• Bush George W.
• Bush George W.
• business prompt dispatch of (Ashoka)
• business prompt dispatch of (Ashoka)
• capabilities approach
• capabilities approach
• carbon taxes
• carbon taxes
• caste
• caste
• Castells Manuel
• Castells Manuel
• caste system
• caste system
• Chanakya
• Chanakya
• Chandragupta Maurya
• Chandragupta Maurya
• coalition politics (India)
• coalition politics (India)
• compassion
• compassion
• conciliation
• conciliation
• conquest (of self)
• conquest (of self)
• consequentialism
• consequentialism
• conservation
• conservation
• corruption
• corruption
• Dalai Lama
• Dalai Lama
• Daly Herman
• Daly Herman
• danda (rule of force; army)
• danda (rule of force; army)
• Debord Guy
• Debord Guy
• deep ecology
• deep ecology
• deontological
• deontological
• deontology
• deontology
• deregulation
• deregulation
• Dhamma
• Dhamma
• dharma
• dharma
• Dhauli
• Dhauli
• diplomacy
• diplomacy
• Draupadi
• Draupadi
• due process of law
• due process of law
• duties (of the state)
• duties (of the state)
• duty
• duty
• Eastern Himalayan Natureconomics Forum
• Eastern Himalayan Natureconomics Forum
• ecological movement
• ecological movement
• economic fundamentalism
• economic fundamentalism
• economic globalization
• economic globalization
• economics
• economics
• economic utility
• economic utility
• ecumenism
• ecumenism
• Egypt
• Egypt
• Egyptians (ancient)
• Egyptians (ancient)
• elephant forests
• elephant forests
• elephant protection
• elephant protection
• embeddedness
• embeddedness
• Endangered Species Act
• Endangered Species Act
• endangered species edict (Ashoka)
• endangered species edict (Ashoka)
• Enlightenment
• Enlightenment
• environmental justice
• environmental justice
• environmental sustainabililty
• environmental sustainabililty
• equal protection of laws
• equal protection of laws
• espionage
• espionage
• essential doctrine (Ashoka's)
• essential doctrine (Ashoka's)
• ethical principles (see also: ethics)
• ethical principles (see also: ethics)
• ethic of success
• ethic of success
• ethics
• ethics
• Ethics (Aristotle)
• Ethics (Aristotle)
• ethics and economics
• ethics and economics
• famine prevention (Kautilya)
• famine prevention (Kautilya)
• Faxian (Fa-Hsien)
• Faxian (Fa-Hsien)
• foreign affairs
• foreign affairs
• foreign aid (see also: foreign assistance)
• foreign aid (see also: foreign assistance)
• forest protection
• forest protection
• free market
• free market
• frugality
• frugality
• Gandhi
• Gandhi
• George Soros
• George Soros
• Gifford Pinchot
• Gifford Pinchot
• global civil society
• global civil society
• global economic crisis
• global economic crisis
• global economy
• global economy
• global environmental crisis
• global environmental crisis
• global ethic
• global ethic
• globalization
• globalization
• global market economy
• global market economy
• global networks
• global networks
• global problems
• global problems
• global warming
• global warming
• good governance
• good governance
• governance
• governance
• grassroots
• grassroots
• Gray John (philosopher)
• Gray John (philosopher)
• Greece (ancient)
• Greece (ancient)
• greenhouse gas accounting
• greenhouse gas accounting
• Guy Debord
• Guy Debord
• habitat protection
• habitat protection
• Harsha
• Harsha
• Harvard Humanities Center
• Harvard Humanities Center
• Harvard South Asia Initiative
• Harvard South Asia Initiative
• healtcare
• healtcare
• Heinrich Zimmer
• Heinrich Zimmer
• Henry Kissinger
• Henry Kissinger
• Hindu
• Hindu
• human rights
• human rights
• idealism
• idealism
• identity
• identity
• incentives
• incentives
• inclusion
• inclusion
• inclusive green growth
• inclusive green growth
• indentured servitude
• indentured servitude
• India
• India
• Indian flag
• Indian flag
• Indika (of Megasthenes)
• Indika (of Megasthenes)
• individual (role of)
• individual (role of)
• Information Age
• Information Age
• inner conquest
• inner conquest
• institutions
• institutions
• internaliization (of costs)
• internaliization (of costs)
• international relations
• international relations
• internet
• internet
• invasion of Iraq
• invasion of Iraq
• Iraq
• Iraq
• Jainism
• Jainism
• Jawaharlal Nehru
• Jawaharlal Nehru
• John Muir
• John Muir
• jurisprudence
• jurisprudence
• justice
• justice
• Kalinga
• Kalinga
• kama
• kama
• Kandahar
• Kandahar
• Karl Polanyi
• Karl Polanyi
• Kauravas
• Kauravas
• Kautilya
• Kautilya
• Küng Hans
• Küng Hans
• law
• law
• legislation (vs. persuasion)
• legislation (vs. persuasion)
• local solutions
• local solutions
• maat
• maat
• Machiavelli
• Machiavelli
• Mahabharata
• Mahabharata
• mandarin
• mandarin
• mantri (Sankskrit)
• mantri (Sankskrit)
• Manuel Castells
• Manuel Castells
• market fundamentalism
• market fundamentalism
• market liberalization
• market liberalization
• Martha Nussbaum
• Martha Nussbaum
• material wealth
• material wealth
• Maurya dynasty
• Maurya dynasty
• Maurya India
• Maurya India
• Max Weber
• Max Weber
• medical services
• medical services
• medicinal herbs
• medicinal herbs
• Megasthenes
• Megasthenes
• Michael Hardt
• Michael Hardt
• modernity
• modernity
• monotheism
• monotheism
• Multitude (Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri)
• Multitude (Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri)
• Nanda dynasty
• Nanda dynasty
• negotiation
• negotiation
• Nepal
• Nepal
• Network Society (Manuel Castells)
• Network Society (Manuel Castells)
• nonviolence
• nonviolence
• Obama health care legislation
• Obama health care legislation
• Octavio Paz
• Octavio Paz
• one rupee coin
• one rupee coin
• Orissa/Odisha
• Orissa/Odisha
• Pakistan
• Pakistan
• Pandavas
• Pandavas
• Pataliputra
• Pataliputra
• Peter Singer
• Peter Singer
• pilgrims (Chinese)
• pilgrims (Chinese)
• Pillar Edicts (Ashoka)
• Pillar Edicts (Ashoka)
• planetary responsibility
• planetary responsibility
• Polanyi Karl
• Polanyi Karl
• political economy
• political economy
• political violence (India)
• political violence (India)
• politics
• politics
• Politics (Aristotle)
• Politics (Aristotle)
• prakrit
• prakrit
• protected natural areas
• protected natural areas
• protected species
• protected species
• protest
• protest
• prudence
• prudence
• public debate
• public debate
• public participation
• public participation
• public policy
• public policy
• Rabindranath Tagore
• Rabindranath Tagore
• realism
• realism
• realpolitik
• realpolitik
• reflection (inner)
• reflection (inner)
• religion
• religion
• religious fundamentalism
• religious fundamentalism
• religious tolerance
• religious tolerance
• responsibility
• responsibility
• responsibility for the world
• responsibility for the world
• restraint
• restraint
• reverence for life
• reverence for life
• reverence for nature
• reverence for nature
• Rock Edicts (Ashoka)
• Rock Edicts (Ashoka)
• Romila Thapar
• Romila Thapar
• Roosevelt (Theodore)
• Roosevelt (Theodore)
• sangha (Buddhist)
• sangha (Buddhist)
• Sanskrit
• Sanskrit
• Sarnath
• Sarnath
• Sarnath Ashokan Pillar
• Sarnath Ashokan Pillar
• sastra
• sastra
• secular ethic
• secular ethic
• Seleucids
• Seleucids
• self-control
• self-control
• shastra
• shastra
• Singh Manmohan
• Singh Manmohan
• skepticism
• skepticism
• slavery
• slavery
• Smith Adam
• Smith Adam
• social change
• social change
• social movements
• social movements
• social sustainability
• social sustainability
• Society of the Spectacle (Guy Debord)
• Society of the Spectacle (Guy Debord)
• species protection
• species protection
• Sri Lanka
• Sri Lanka
• state (role of)
• state (role of)
• state (withdrawal of)
• state (withdrawal of)
• statecraft
• statecraft
• state seal of India
• state seal of India
• sticks and carrots
• sticks and carrots
• subversion
• subversion
• sustainable development
• sustainable development
• Taliban
• Taliban
• Tamils
• Tamils
• Tata Group
• Tata Group
• technocracy
• technocracy
• technology
• technology
• Thailand
• Thailand
• Thatcher Margaret
• Thatcher Margaret
• The Great Transformation (Polanyi)
• The Great Transformation (Polanyi)
• The Idea of Justice (Amartya Sen)
• The Idea of Justice (Amartya Sen)
• The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Adam Smith)
• The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Adam Smith)
• The Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith)
• The Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith)
• Tibet
• Tibet
• tolerance
• tolerance
• top-down
• top-down
• To Uphold the World
• To Uphold the World
• Toynbee Arnold
• Toynbee Arnold
• transcendence
• transcendence
• transparency
• transparency
• tribal peoples
• tribal peoples
• uniformity judicial procedure
• uniformity judicial procedure
• universal ethic
• universal ethic
• universal health care
• universal health care
• utilitarianism
• utilitarianism
• Vaclav Havel
• Vaclav Havel
• values
• values
• Vedas
• Vedas
• vegetarianism
• vegetarianism
• venal view (of human nature)
• venal view (of human nature)
• venal view (of modern economics)
• venal view (of modern economics)
• veneration
• veneration
• violence
• violence
• wealth
• wealth
• Web
• Web
• Weber Max
• Weber Max
• welfare
• welfare
• Wen Jiabao
• Wen Jiabao
• women's rights (Kautilya)
• women's rights (Kautilya)
• World Economic Forum
• World Economic Forum
• Xuangzang (Hiuan-Tsang)
• Xuangzang (Hiuan-Tsang)
• Yudhishthira
• Yudhishthira

All Tags…

• About
• Books
• Articles
• Insights
• Contact

• About
• Books
• Articles
• Insights
• Contact

Connect

Connect

© 2018- Bruce Rich | All Rights Reserved