The Search for Hindu Ethics in Contemporary India vis-it-vis Dharma
This essay attempts to argue, first, that the Dharmasustra and Dharmasastra tradition represented by Manu and the Arthasastra tradition represented by Kautilya, despite many basic differences in the way the two approached the application of Dharma, are broadly speaking structured within the format o...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2004
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Nidān
Year: 2004, Issue: 16, Pages: 32-52 |
| Further subjects: | B
Social
B Modern western notion B Sikhism B Religious |
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| Summary: | This essay attempts to argue, first, that the Dharmasustra and Dharmasastra tradition represented by Manu and the Arthasastra tradition represented by Kautilya, despite many basic differences in the way the two approached the application of Dharma, are broadly speaking structured within the format of the svadharma based ethical discourse. Second, the contemporary discourse on Hindu ethics has moved away from the svadharma based discourse and, therefore, the quest for modem search for Hindu ethics has to take into account the influences from the colonial past and it has to deal with the growing sense of social, cultural and political diversity in India today. |
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| ISSN: | 2414-8636 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Nidān
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.58125/nidan.2004.1 |