EPAG-Ethics Politics and Global Affairs

Join us for International Webinar on "Climate Change" on 13 September, at 05:30 pm IST.

Join webinar on "Citizenship in the time of Pandemic" by Professor Acharya tomorrow at 11:30 am.

Click following link to join the lecture: https://amity.webex.com/amity/onstage/g.php?MTID=eecad74354f657b0111b93f5d4e8dceaf

"A wake up call" by Krishnamurari Mukherjee.

Click on the link below to read complete article

https://centerforethicspoliticsandglobalaffairs.wordpress.com/2020/04/29/a-wake-up-call/

Aparna Mishra explores the ethics and practice of adaptive preferences.

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https://centerforethicspoliticsandglobalaffairs.wordpress.com/2019/10/29/gendering-development-ethics-interrogating-the-ethics-and-practice-of-adaptive-preferences/

Jessica Duggal writes on the ethical debate surrounding the innovations made in the biomedical field with in-vito fertilization.
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https://centerforethicspoliticsandglobalaffairs.wordpress.com/2019/10/25/bio-ethics-and-in-vito-fertilisation-an-ethical-debate/

Is relationships with machines, unlike natural friendships, somewhat like virtually aping one’s own self?

Click on the link below to read Tanmita's take on technological innovations replacing the friendships between humans.

http://centerforethicspoliticsandglobalaffairs.wordpress.com/2019/10/23/friendship-and-machines-tanmita-kundu/

Kriti Seth in her work talks about the question of procreative liberty which has been long been argued by early feminists as a right that must be practiced with full autonomy by the women. With the emergence of reproductive technology, several other concerns have penetrated the issue of reproductive freedom. These issues range from the right to use contraceptives, to seek legal abortions and to gain the right to maternal care.

Read the complete article on the link below.

https://centerforethicspoliticsandglobalaffairs.wordpress.com/2019/10/19/the-market-of-commodification-and-exploitation-a-critique-of-procreative-liberty/

On the occasion of Global Ethics Day 2019, a few members of EPAG have contributed blog articles. Click on the link below to read our first blog.

A Brief Overview of the Provenance of Global Justice ~ *Krishnamurari Mukherjee Poverty. Climate change. Immigration. Financial flows. Development. Issues like these are rarely confined within the boundaries of a single society or a state. They afflict humanity in its collecti…

https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/private-public-and-political-morality/article27118959.ece

Private, public and political morality When people choose a political life, they must follow an ethic distinct from private morality

Douglas Allen is Professor of Philosophy at University of Maine, USA. A peace and justice activist scholar, he is author/editor of 15 books, and he has received Fulbright and Smithsonian grants to India. His latest Gandhi-informed book, Gandhi after 9/11: Creative Nonviolence and Sustainability is published recently by Oxford University Press in 2019.

Some more pictures from the inaugural event.

Ashok Acharya is Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi and Global Justice Fellow, Yale University. He received his PhD. from the University of Toronto. He is the co-editor of Political Theory: An Introduction (Pearson, 2008) and editor of Citizenship in a Globalizing World (Pearson, 2012) besides publishing articles in areas of multiculturalism, social justice and affirmative action. He has been a Fellow at the Australian Social Science Academy, Canberra and the University of Birmingham, UK and has held the Henry Hart Rice Visiting Professorship at Yale University for the year 2012-13. His current areas of research include comparative and contemporary political theory, ethics and politics, and themes surrounding global justice. He has led the interdisciplinary Nyaya research programme at the University of Delhi in partnership with various global institutions and support from the British Council.