Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra
Introduction: Preliminaries
SS Chakravarti - Traditional Indian Virtue Ethics for Today: An East-West …, 2024
… the specific area of the presence of the ethical perspective in Sri Aurobindo. ‘Sri Aurobindo’s not authoring any … text dealing exclusively with morality or ethics’, she assures us, ‘is not to be read as a reflection of Sri Aurobindo’s backing for an … Sri Aurobindo critiqued the failure of reason to tackle ethical problems, though. Enigmatically, he held the view that an ethical being is a law to itself. Furthermore, the depth of this essentially metaphysical condition challenges either a deontologist or a consequentialist ethical viewpoint. Yet, Aurobindo was also committed to finding an answer to the question: From where do moral impulses, instincts, and activities originate? Not to suggest that Sri Aurobindo was framing a set of practical rules for one to follow, this chapter demonstrates that Aurobindo is committed to the notion of nature, or svabhāva and personal duty, or svadharma as preached in the Gita. In Sri Aurobindo’s model, like Dharma ethical models, virtue ethics prepares one for a purer sattvic element. The domain of ethics is nothing but the rational level that is a stage in evolution. The ethical aim of Yoga is not an external idea of virtue but rather a heightening of the divine by way of a three-tier existential level: suprarational, rational, and infrarational.
Sri Aurobindo's Metaphysics of Morals vis-à-vis Western Models of Virtue Ethics
I Sanyal - Traditional Indian Virtue Ethics for Today: An East-West …, 2024
… Not to suggest that Sri Aurobindo was framing a set of practical rules for one to follow, this chapter demonstrates that Aurobindo is … To begin a discussion of Sri Aurobindo’s metaphysics of morals is a challenging task. Sri Aurobindo did not offer …
Environmental Virtue Ethics: A Traditional Indian Perspective on Hursthouse's Quest
SS Chakravarti - Traditional Indian Virtue Ethics for Today: An East-West …, 2024
… Buddhi Yoga, or Yoga of the Intelligent Will, in the excellent translation by Sri Aurobindo, relates to Yoga in the context of performance … Sri Aurobindo) (2.50). In the 48th verse this technique is posited as informed by ‘samatva’, ie, by ‘equality’, if …
Epilogue: Incorporating Ideas from the Mahabharata
S Chakravarti - Traditional Indian Virtue Ethics for Today
The great epic, The Mahabharata, is the richest document available on the society, polity and value systems of ancient India. It also serves as a watershed between the Vedic (śrauta) and the post-Vedic (smārta) life-world. Rightly looked upon as the …
Teaching Ancient Indian Jurisprudence in Our Time A Heterodox Approach to Orthodoxies
SG Sreejith - Journal of Human Values, 2024
Ancient allures the postmodern social subject trapped in the strangeness of time—the time after the end of history. For that time-beaten subject ancient is the unconscious of coherence, predictability, and certainty. Or perhaps that ancient is a glory fled …
[PDF] FUNCTIONS AND FORMS OF PHYSICAL CULTURE IN SOCIETY
NA Tolibaevich, KA Kengesbayevich - Proximus Journal of Sports Science and …, 2024
… - Cultural Games: Activities like Kurash (traditional wrestling) in Uzbekistan, sumo in Japan, and Gaelic football in Ireland are integral to … —from recreational activities and competitive sports to traditional games and professional athletics …
[PDF] Aesthetics of Theft
S Bandyopadhay - The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian …
… It may not be amiss to claim that just as Symposium’s proposition vis-à-vis the interplay of need and desire so also the notion of yoga-kṣema demands a dynamic interpretation. For, if the propelling of desire or kāma culminates in yoga, that is, in …
Virtue Ethics in Swami Vivekananda: A Novel Perspective on Vedanta
A Bandyopadhyay - Traditional Indian Virtue Ethics for Today: An East-West …, 2024
… Whether for a serious spiritual aspirant or ordinary beings going about their daily lives, ethics and morality are integral and critical components … Vivekananda added an important strand of yoga to the group of existing yogas in the Indian system …
Emotion Concepts for Virtue Theory: From Aesthetic to Epistemic and Moral
L Widdison - Traditional Indian Virtue Ethics for Today: An East-West …, 2024
… This integral technical term for reflective or aesthetic emotions we now see as rasa, has forms of which śānta is but one of many aesthetic ideas, like the erotic, comedy, or tragedy denoting an atmosphere such as peaceful, sexy, funny or sad. The …
[PDF] Journal of Integrative Medicine
L Makoni, IT Manduna, AL Mbiriri - 2024
… Lifestyle medicine, naturopathy, yoga, Ayurveda and traditional Chinese medicine were shown to be effective for type 2 diabetes mellitus, … A number of complementary and alternative medicine healing strategies like yoga, naturopathy …
[PDF] Traditional knowledge of medicinal orchids in different parts of India
SS Biswas, NS Kalaivanan, R Pal, BK Alam… - Indian Journal of Traditional …, 2024
… Wild plants, often abundant and thriving in diverse ecosystems, have played an integral role in the lives of tribal communities for centuries. These natural resources have served as source of medicinal remedies for these indigenous populations …
In the Time of the Nations: Faith contra Violence
F Dallmayr - Exiting Violence
Habent sua fata libelli. 1 Dramatic social or political developments may give new salience to books that have slumbered on shelves for some time. The works of George Orwell, especially his 1984 and Animal Farm, illustrate the truth of the adage …
[HTML] Expanding Upon Critical Methodologies and Perspectives in Communication Studies
A Mudambi, AN Heuman - Communication Studies, 2024
Within this special issue, we turn our attention to critical perspectives within the communication discipline and seek to illuminate the implementation of critical methods across its broader contexts. While the communication discipline has …
Radical Buddhism in Sri Lanka
E Pace - Exiting Violence
… 4 Contemporary India, at the time of the political and cultural hegemony of the Hindu People’s Party, led by the current Premier Narendra Mohdi, constitutes an exemplary open-air laboratory of how a peaceful idea—the Hindutva, the return to …
'Regionalism'and its contestations: changing political discourse in contemporary Assam
PP Borah, AJ Bhuyan - India Review, 2024
… workers and tribal communities into the Hindutva fold, Prime Minister Modi’s leadership, its national security campaign capturing the popular imagination, the grassroots role of the RSS and its rigid Hindutva agenda combined with a cultural …
[PDF] Authorizing Violence: Spatial Techniques of Citizenship Politics in Northeast India
S Vachhrajani - 2024
… It was conceptualized by the founder of Hindutva Ideology and right-wing politician Vir Savarkar in his seminal 1923 book "Hindutva: Who … Hindutva, by design, operates in both the imagined and real spaces. Geocultural notions mark the …
[HTML] What a wonderful (post-apocalyptic) world: representations of India and the West in Ramayan 3392 AD
JP Oliveira - Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 2024
… hardcore supporters of Hindu nationalism, a larger group of proto-Hindutva enthusiasts have clustered around them (53). This may mean … which is neither secular nor Hindutva but is nonetheless nationalistic. While the content of secular …
Faultlines and stultification: contemporary currents in India and Pakistan
S Sengupta - India Review, 2024
… to a Hindutva state. Although it is never wise to assume that any government shall remain in power forever, it is also very clear that the Hindutva … As far as the judiciary is concerned, India is witnessing a surge in approval for the Hindutva …
Sorry, to say but this is not language a PM of India should be speaking
There is a dignity of this position and that 'maryada " should not be broken
Using words as 'Mujra ' is so cheap. Is the language PM shud be speaking?
No wonder his followers also use equally abusive, filthy and pedestrian language for Hindu women.
https://x.com/RituRathaur/status/1794369523518230622?t=MD8dfVW-IhV1zMFOjy_W7A&s=19
Modi’s campaigns in Bengal add no value other than feeding into his own ego. What he says isn’t even part of the political discourse. In other words no one knows the content of his campaign except the attendees. Where he could have been immensely useful is exactly where he is doing nothing - ensuring free and fair polls through his appointees.
Typical showman.
https://x.com/sarkar_swati/status/1794370193516371997?t=W3lTdoqrqnNTSdWSCZO9bA&s=19
