Publications
Ethics: Man, Morality, Spirituality, Religion and Liberation
by Kalicharan Rauta
The objective of this book is to provide a theory of selfless
ethical love 
in the context of our technological age with
logical clarity. Its first part discusses various basic issues
concerning the logic of ethics. It argues that ethics is not
non-cognitive, not a priori transcendental, not subjective,
and not relative: it is possible to have empirical scientific
moral and spiritual knowledge. The second part of the book
discusses mainly the problem of the ultimate goal of human
life, dealing briefly with various other basic issues of ethics
in the course of the discussions. It argues that the classical
Indian theory of liberation does provide some profound empirical
scientific theory of a life of perfect enlightened selfless
ethical love which constitutes the essence of a liberated
life, the ultimate goal of life. It argues about the fundamental
ethical unity and truth of all great religions and agrees
with Gandhi's view that modern civilization is fundamentally
an irreligious false civilization in the sense that selfless
ethical love which constitutes the essence of religious life
has no place in it and what it considers to be the ultimate
meaning of life is essentially false.
Kalicharan Rauta is a Gandhian analytic philosopher who commenced his philosophical research journey with Wittgenstein and ended with Socrates, Buddha and Gandhi. He joined University of Pune as faculty in 1979 after completing Ph D from IIT- Kanpur and retired in 2009.
