Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Ethics of Philanthropy
3. Trusteeship
4. Business and Social Welfare
5. Private and the Public
6. Profit
7. Being Human: Personal to Social Ethics
8. Conclusion
Index
Biography
Sundar Sarukkai was Professor of Philosophy at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, India, until 2019. He was also the Founder-Director of the Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities, and has worked primarily in the philosophy of natural and social sciences. He has been part of studies on Gandhian and other social organisations as well as philanthropic ones. He is the author of Translating the World: Science and Language (2002), Philosophy of Symmetry (2004), Indian Philosophy and Philosophy of Science (2005), What is Science? (2012), and two books co-authored with Gopal Guru: The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory (2012/2017) and Experience, Caste and the Everyday Social (2019). He has also been active in outreach programmes to take philosophy to different communities and places, including philosophy workshops for children and bringing philosophy to the public through his writing in the media and through his initiative, Barefoot Philosophers.
