Roopen Majithia
Biography
Roopen Majithia completed his schooling in Bangalore and his higher education in the US and Canada. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the joint program at MacMaster University and the University of Guelph and is currently at Mount Allison University in Canada, where he teaches widely in the History of Western Philosophy and Indian Philosophy as well as in Ethics. He has written and published on Plato, Aristotle, Shankara and the Bhagavad Gita.
Publications
The Highest Good in the Nicomachean Ethics and the Bhagavad Gita: Knowledge, Happiness and Freedom (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024) Download on PhilPapers.org.
"The Ethical Syncretism of the Bhagavad Gītā," Comparative Philosophy (January 2015) Download on PhilPapers.org.
"Love and Virtue in Aristotle's Ethics" The Archive for the History of Philosophy and Political Thought (2014)
"Blues as Catharsis" in Blues and Philosophy: Thinking Deep About Feeling Low, edited by Jesse R. Steinberg and Abrol Fairweather (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012): 84-93
"Shankara on Action and Liberation," Asian Philosophy (2007)
"Function, Intuition and Ends in Aristotle's Ethics," Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (2006)
"On the Eudemian and Nicomachean Conceptions of Eudaimonia," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, (summer 2005)
"Self and Soul in Aristotle," Transcendent Philosophy, (June, 2004)
"The Relation of Divine Thinking to Human Thought in Aristotle," The American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly (Summer 1999)
Education
PhD (Guelph-McMaster) 1999
MA (Northern Illinois University) 1994
BA Honours (Beloit College) 1992
Teaching
- Plato's Republic
- Introduction to Ethics
- Ancient Philosophy including Hellenistic Philosophy
- Indian Philosophy
- The Rationalists
- The Empiricists
- Advanced Ethical Theory
- Philosophy as a Way of Life
Research
- Ancient Greek Philosophy
- History of Ethics
- Indian Philosophy
- Comparative Philosophy