Talking Philosophy is as much a recollection of Sorabjis childhood and his scholarly life at Oxford as it is a philosophical reflection on issues as varied and complex as whether animals have reason or whether Gandhi could be considered an ethical role model.

n Examined Self: The Grace of Moral Consciousness ; 1. PART 1 ; Childhood at Oxford N ; Remembering Cornelia Sorabji ; andhi and the Parsees ; A Christian Education ; Becoming British ; An Imagined India ; The Dragon School at Oxford ; Memories of the Second World War ; Studying at Charterhouse ; Cricket and the Indian-ness ; Practising Russian ; The Oxford Years ; Living in America ; Back to England ; Return to Oxford ; The Paradoxical India ; A Typical British Scholarly Life ; 2. Part II ; GANDHI AND ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY ; Gandhi and Eastern Philosophy ; Gandhi the Role Model ; The Gandhian Body Politic ; Gandhi as a Philosopher ; Eros, Philia, and Agape ; Self-Purification of the Nation and Salvation of the Soul ; Gandhi and the Stoics ; Gandhi and Brahmacharya ; 1. Part III ; TIME, SELF, FREEDOM, AND DEATH ; Is There a Self? ; The Self and the Stoics ; The Stoics and the Indians ; Death and Reincarnation ; The Disembodied Self ; The Necessity and the Cause ; What Is Time? ; Time and Consolation ; Death and Will to Life: East and West ; Thinking the Universe ; 1. Part IV ; READING ANCIENT GREEKS TODAY ; Starting with Aristotle ; The Concept of Memory ; Sense Perception in Greek Philosophy ; Return to the Stoics ; Living with Excellence ; Being a Stoic Today ; Ashoka and Marcus Aurelius ; Aristotle on Self-Awareness ; Sharing Knowledge with Oneself ; 1. Part V ; WAR AND ETHICS ; Going to War ; Patriotism and War ; Western Tradition of Ethics of War ; Authority and War ; The Stoics and War ; Humanitarian Intervention in Ancient Times ; The Concept of Just War ; Moderation and Peace ; 1. Part VI ; ANIMALS AND HUMANS ; Animal Minds and Human Morals ; Animals and Moral Philosophy ; Gandhi and Animals ; The Masters and Possessors of Nature ; Animals in the Indian Tradition ; The Stoics and Animals ; Is Cannibalism a Moral Attitude? ; Philosophers and the Support for Animals ; 1. Part VII ; LOOKING BACK ; Reminiscing ; An Intercultural Philosopher ; Being Reborn and Choices in Life

Explores life-journey/thoughts of Richard Sorabji, eminent philosopher Discussion on Cornelia Sorabji; Gandhi and Eastern Philosophy; concept of 'Self' and 'Memory'; Aristotle; and War Contextual introduction

Ramin Jahanbegloo is an Iranian philosopher. He currently teaches in Toronto, Canada. He has authored 30 books, many of which have been translated into different languages. Time Will Say Nothing (2014) is his most recent work. Richard Sorabji is an Honorary Fellow, Wolfson College, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford

Explores life-journey/thoughts of Richard Sorabji, eminent philosopher Discussion on Cornelia Sorabji; Gandhi and Eastern Philosophy; concept of 'Self' and 'Memory'; Aristotle; and War Contextual introduction