The paper aims at unravelling the dynamics of Vedãntic ethics as conceived by Vivekãnanda. It gives us an overview of what Vivekãnanda felt about the application of Vedãntic ethics in resolving crises modern man faces in practical and professional life, and I have tried to read between the lines to justify a valid model of dialogue and corroboration implicit in Vivekãnanda's expositions which acts as an axiomatic standard or model of ethical resolution of crises in business and management.
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Contemporary Practical Ethics propagates mainly the idea of ethical resolution in mechanical ways of application of one or more standard ethical theories like Teleology or Deontology. This is a misconception about application of ethics in diverse fields.
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VivekanandaSwãmi, “Collected Works”, Vol II, Advaita Asram, Calcutta, 1958, p 75.
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VivekanandaSwãmi, “Collected Works”, Ibid, p 286.
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Ibid, Vol. I, p 181–82.
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Ibid, p 182.
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Ibid, Vol. I, p 435.
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Ibid, Vol. II, p 292–307.
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Readers may refer to Dr. S. K. Chakraborty's pioneering work “Ethics in Management: Vedãntic Perspective”, O.U.P., Delhi, 1996, pp. 64–71, in which we get a good account of profit based business ethics and the Vedãntic business ethics. Dr. Chakraborty concludes in favour of the latter.
