Ethics in the Mahabharata
A Philosophical Inquiry for Today

By Sitansu S. Chakravarti
July 2006
Munshiram Manoharlal
ISBN: 8121511712
211 pages, 5 3/4 x 8 3/4"
$32.50 Hardcover

 

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Partial Contents:

Grounds of Morality
Three Kinds of Duty.
Dharma—The Two Senses: Utilitarian Thrust with a Difference.
Truth—The First Principle
Goals of Mahabharata.
Overpowering Bhishma.
Sri Krishna in Contrast.
Caste System.
Human Rights & Variable Morality.
Moral Constraint—Wittgensteinian Form of Life Nested Existentially in the Chomsky Setting.
Freud’s Criticism of Love as a Value.
Tagore’s Red Oleanders.
Central Philosophy.
The Universal Message.
Place of Gita in the Mahabharata.
Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.

Philosophy; Buddhism

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