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This open access book offers a comprehensive understanding of yoga theory and practice as it bears on several dimensions of animal-related ethical reflection and action. "Yoga" has become a household word in recent decades and, increasingly, has drawn physical yoga practitioners to explore its philosophy; significantly, classical yoga philosophy and praxis are deeply grounded in realizing the self in relation with all beings as non-material selves. Therefore yoga provides an ideal entry-way into contemporary animal ethics discourse, contributing particularly in its appeal to the experiential dimension of human self-understanding in relation to nonhuman animals.
Table des matières
Ch 1: Introduction Bringing Yoga and Animal Ethics Together.- Part I: Yoga and the Dialectics of Animal/Self Sacrifice.- Ch 2: Yoga as Reaction to Animal Sacrifice.- Ch 3: Dharma, Yoga, and Animals in the Mahabharata.- Part II: Yoga Ascent, Animal Ethics: Body, Self, and Other in Classical Yoga.- Ch 4: Yoga Ethics: Restrains (yama) and Observances (niyama).- Ch 5: Embodied Yoga in Pursuit of Equal Vision.- Ch 6: Minding Animals: The Meditational Turn.- Part III: Being Animal, Becoming Devotional Subjects.- Ch 7: The Bhagavadgita s Three Approaches to Animal Ethics.- Ch 8: Animals, Personhood, Wonder, and Bhakti-yoga.- Ch 9: Concluding Reflections: Yoga, Animals, Environment.
A propos de l'auteur
Kenneth R. Valpey is a research fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and a research fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, UK. Besides Hindu animal ethics, he has published on Vaishnava Hindu temple worship traditions and on India's enduring favorite of bhakti literature, the Bh¿gavata Pur¿¿a.
Résumé
This open access book offers a comprehensive understanding of yoga theory and practice as it bears on several dimensions of animal-related ethical reflection and action. "Yoga" has become a household word in recent decades and, increasingly, has drawn physical yoga practitioners to explore its philosophy; significantly, classical yoga philosophy and praxis are deeply grounded in realizing the self in relation with all beings as non-material selves. Therefore yoga provides an ideal entry-way into contemporary animal ethics discourse, contributing particularly in its appeal to the experiential dimension of human self-understanding in relation to nonhuman animals.
